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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Carnage in Aleppo, once again a battlefield in Syria's war
By SARAH EL DEEB and PHILIP ISSA BEIRUT©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
Look our military industrial complex wanted continuous warfare and that what we have. Mission accomplished.
lostrune2
We're apt to believe Medecins Sans Frontieres, so let's take into account that a war plane hit their hospital. By practicing eliminating possibilities, a war plane limits it to 4 participants in that area: NATO, Turkey, Russia, Syria.
NATO hardly goes that far west Syria for significant reasons: most ISIS aren't there but in east Syria (and they don't risk inadvertently bombing the rebels), and that corner of Syria is deep within Russia's formidable S-400 air defense system envelope of control, which would then have a record of NATO plane being there. The last thing NATO wants is an incident with Russian planes in an area where NATO is in deep disadvantage.
For the same reasons above, Turkey is in even more deep trouble since they already shot down a Russian plane. Any sign of a Turkey plane in that area, Russia would be absolutely merciless. So Turkey would be even more scared to stay away from that area.
Meanwhile, Russia is winding down their operations and doesn't want to get bogged down in the conflict too deep, so they would be more careful when vetting targets.
That leaves Syria. Syria has shown they're willing to use indiscriminate petrol drums to "dumb" bomb inside cities, so they're not as careful as the Russians. They're also in this for the long haul with deep animosity from both sides, so more Sunni-cleansing in the rebel heartland of Aleppo wouldn't be out of the question, how ever it's achieved. Thus Syria has more to gain out of this.
seadog538
Sunni versus Shiite---been going on forever---it'll never stop. They should be used to it by now.
stormcrow
Aleppo, between a rock and a hard place.
Madverts
The Russian campaign was hardly careful. They just ran out of cash.
badsey3
http://www.moonofalabama.org/images4/janes-syria.jpg
Obama/CIA keeps supplying the "rebels" (terrorists) with arms. Another month or two of the Russian push would have pushed these terrorists back into Turkey and could have sealed the border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9CSqWQBpOo (Drone footage of Aleppo)
There is very little of Aleppo left to even support the terrorists now.