Syria war: Missile strikes on military sites 'kill pro-Assad fighters...
Syria War: Missile Strikes on Military Sites 'Kill pro-Assad Fighters'. english.khamenei.ir/news/5635/By-abetting-Saudis-U-S-seeks-to-incite-war-between-Muslims.
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Missile strikes on military sites in northern Syria overnight reportedly killed a number of pro-government fighters, including Iranians.
The Syrian military said facilities in Hama and Aleppo provinces were struck.
It did not say if there were any casualties. But a UK-based monitoring group said four Syrians and 22 foreigners, mostly Iranians, died.
It is not known who was behind the attacks. But Western nations and Israel have previously hit sites in Syria.
Earlier this month, the US, UK and France bombed three facilities they said were associated with the Syrian government's alleged chemical weapons programme.
Israel is meanwhile alleged to have hit an airbase reportedly serving as an Iranian drone command centre and containing an advanced Iranian air defence system.
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will issue a statement on Monday evening on a "significant development" regarding the nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran.
Mr Netanyahu has been a staunch opponent of the deal, arguing that it should be "fixed" or scrapped. US President Donald Trump is due to decide on 12 May whether or not to reimpose nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, a move which would put the agreement in jeopardy.
US-led strikes on Syria: What was hit?
Israel blamed for Syria airfield attack
Why is there a war in Syria?
What was hit on Sunday?
A Syrian military source cited by the official Sana news agency did not identify any specific locations, saying only that the military sites were "exposed... to a new aggression" at 22:30 (19:30 GMT).
The source added that the strikes came after "terrorist organisations" had suffered defeats in the countryside around the capital, Damascus, an apparent reference to the recent recapture of the Eastern Ghouta region from rebel groups.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said one strike appeared to have targeted a depot for surface-to-surface missiles at the 47th Brigade military base, south of the city of Hama.
The pro-opposition Orient News website also reported that large explosions were seen coming from what were believed to be ammunition caches at the base.
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Opposition media activist Mohammed Rasheed told the Associated Press that debris from the explosion at the depot struck parts of Hama and that residents of areas near the base fled their homes.
Missiles are also reported to have hit locations in the Salhab area, west of Hama city, and the area surrounding Nairab military airport, which is close to the city of Aleppo and its international airport.
Who was reportedly killed?
The SOHR cited its sources as saying 26 pro-government fighters were killed in the missile strikes, most of them Iranians. It added that the death toll might rise as 60 fighters were wounded, some of them seriously, and that others were missing.
An official from a pro-Assad military alliance that includes Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement told the New York Times that the strike on the 47th Brigade base destroyed 200 missiles and killed 16 people, including 11 Iranians.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency cited its sources as saying that the missiles struck weapons depots in southern Hama and an area north of Aleppo's airport, but they denied that Iranian military advisers were killed.
Iran's Tasnim news agency also said an "informed" source had dismissed as "baseless" the reports that Iranian facilities were hit and Iranians killed.
Who was behind the strikes?
A Syrian state-owned newspaper quoted sources as saying the missiles were fired from US-British bases in northern Jordan.
But the SOHR said that given the nature of the reported targets, the missiles were probably fired by Israel.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said on Monday morning that he was "not aware" of any strikes.
"All the violence and instability in Syria is the result of Iran's attempts to establish a military presence there. Israel will not allow the opening of a northern front in Syria," he told Israel's Army Radio.
The Israeli government has repeatedly vowed to stop Iran from strengthening its military presence in Syria, where it has deployed hundreds of troops to help keep President Bashar al-Assad in power since the country's civil war began in 2011.
Thousands of Shia Muslim militiamen armed, trained and financed by Iran - mostly from Hezbollah, but also Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen - are also fighting alongside the Syrian army.
Iran vows to 'hit back'
By Ali Hashem, Iranian affairs correspondent, BBC Arabic, Beirut
Up to now it is not clear who carried out the strikes, nor who exactly was killed. While a UK-based monitoring group said the casualties were mostly Iranian, sources in Iran denied that any of its bases were hit or any of its "military advisers" died.
Analysts have speculated about Israeli or US involvement. Syrian media quoted a senior military source as saying that nine missiles were fired from a US-British base in Jordan.
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It is very unlikely that a US-led attack would be carried out without Washington admitting to it.
On 8 April, an air strike - believed to be Israeli (though not officially acknowledged) - targeted an Iranian facility at the T4 airbase in Homs province, killing seven Iranian personnel.
Iranian officials vowed to respond to that attack, and on Monday Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the US that the "the time of hitting and running is gone". "Now, if you hit, you will be hit back," he said.
My response:
I like this article in some ways because we get a little taste of what is happening today in our world, and all the good, bad and ugly. This article is a prime example of what is happening in the middle east today, and how it is impacting the rest of the world today. The war in Syria today is causing a world wide out break of terrorism and i feel it is spreading to father parts of the world.
Audience: the people in Syria.
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam jailed in Belgium...
“Paris Attack.” BBC News, 23 Apr. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43862873.
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Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest.
Abdeslam, 28, and co-defendant Sofien Ayari were both convicted of terror-related charges of attempted murder. Ayari, 24, was also given a 20-year sentence. Both fired on officers who raided a flat in Brussels in 2016. He is being held in a jail in France and is due to face trial there over the Paris attacks themselves. He had refused to answer questions from the judge in the trial in Brussels, and eventually refused to attend the hearings. Neither he nor Ayari, 24, was in court as the verdict was read out on Monday. Both received the maximum 20-year term requested by prosecutors. The judge, Marie France Keutgen, said that "there can be no doubt" about the two men's involvement with "radicalism". She added: "Their intention is clear from the nature of the weapons they used, the number of bullets they fired and the nature of the police officers' wounds. Only the officers' professional response prevented it being worse." What happened during the shootout and its aftermath? On 15 March 2016, Belgian police hunting Abdeslam carried out a raid in the Forest area of Brussels. They targeted a flat believing that the suspect - who by then had been on the run for four months - had been there. When they moved in they exchanged fire with the three occupants. One of the three was killed and three officers were wounded. Abdeslam and Ayari managed to escape, but Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in the flat, confirming his presence there. He was picked up days later in a raid in the nearby Molenbeek area, and later transferred to France. What do we know about Abdeslam? He was born in Brussels from Moroccan parents who also had French nationality. This allowed him to become French himself. He was involved in petty crime in Belgium as a youth, and is believed to have become radicalised along with his brother Salim around 2014. Both then reportedly joined a French-Belgian network linked with the Islamic State group (IS), which later claimed the Paris attacks. The network was involved in both the Paris attacks and bombings that struck the Brussels metro and airport on 22 March 2016, just days after Abdeslam's arrest, killing 35 people. In Monday's ruling, the court denied a request by victims from those attacks that they be regarded as a civil party to the case, saying no link had been established with Abdeslam and Ayari.
My response:
Audience: the Audience of the is article, is mainly people from Europe. the place where this article is taking place is, Brussels and Paris France. Also the some of the .audience is Middle East where (IS) the Islamic State is located, and what the two men associate with.
Authors bias: the authors bias is against the two terrorist men that were accused of the Paris and Brussels attack. They both were accused of killing a police officer. The men were caught in Germany, and sentences to 20 years in jail. The author did good describing what happen to the men, and what the incident was.
readers bias: I agree with what the author has to say, I think as a reader, you either agree or disagree. I agree with this author because the author made a good point in calling out and making clear who the criminal was and what they did.
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Critically ill man is former Russian spy.
“Critically Ill Man Is Former Russian Spy.” BBC News, BBC, 5 Mar. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/uk-43295134.
A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands.
Sergei Skripal, 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a "spy swap" between the US and Russia in 2010.
Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury has been closed by police "as a precaution".
The substance has not been identified, but Public Health England said there was no known risk to the public's health.
Wiltshire Police are investigating whether a crime has been committed. They said the pair had no visible injuries but had been found unconscious at the Maltings shopping centre.
They have declared a "major incident" and multiple agencies are investigating. They said it had not been declared as a counter-terrorism incident, but they were keeping an "open mind".
Col Skripal, who is a retired Russian military intelligence officer, was jailed for 13 years by Russia in 2006 for spying for Britain.
He was convicted of passing the identities of Russian intelligence agents working undercover in Europe to the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
Russia said Col Skripal had been paid $100,000 for the information, which he had been supplying from the 1990s.
He was one of four prisoners released by Moscow in exchange for 10 US spies in 2010, as part of a swap. Col Skripal was later flown to the UK.
He and the woman, who police said were known to each other, are both in intensive care at Salisbury District Hospital.
A number of locations in the city centre were cordoned off and teams in full protective gear used hoses to decontaminate the street.
The hospital advised people to attend routine operations and outpatient appointments unless they were contacted. It said its A&E department was open but busy because of the weather.
On the restaurant closure, police said Public Health England had reiterated the advice that there was no known risk to the wider public, but as a precaution advised that if people felt ill they should contact the NHS on 111.
"If you feel your own or another's health is significantly deteriorating, ring 999," police said.
Neighbours at Sergei Skripal's home in Salisbury say police arrived around 17:00 GMT on Sunday and have been there ever since.
They said he was friendly and in recent years had lost his wife.
Eyewitness Freya Church told the BBC it looked like the two people had taken "something quite strong".
She said: "On the bench there was a couple, an older guy and a younger girl. She was sort of leant in on him, it looked like she had passed out maybe.
"He was doing some strange hand movements, looking up to the sky...
"They looked so out of it I thought even if I did step in I wasn't sure how I could help."
The possibility of an unexplained substance being involved has drawn comparisons with the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
The Russian dissident died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with a radioactive substance.
A public inquiry concluded that his killing had probably been carried out with the approval of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in the UK, when asked for comment on the incident, said: "Neither relatives nor legal representatives of the said person, nor the British authorities, have addressed the embassy in this regard."
My Responce
Audience: The audience of this article is the people of Russia, Great Britain, and there surrounding countries. Authors Bias: I think the authors bias of this article is pointed toward the Russians. Because of the investigation they are doing. Readers bias: I personally think that it is pointed to Russia, because ever since World War 2 Russia and the Soviet Union, then, have been blamed for a lot. If they hadn't had taken the man under captivity, then everything would have been ok, and if he would have stayed on the down low. We have a prices to pay, and this was his, so in some ways it makes since. I do think they should have an investigation for what could have happened to the man and women that were found on a bench.
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Florida school shooting: NRA 'doesn't back any ban'
“Florida School Shooting: NRA 'Doesn't Back Any Ban'.” BBC News, BBC, 26 Feb. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43193222.
The US National Rifle Association (NRA) has said it does not support any gun ban following a shooting in a Florida school that left 17 people dead.
The NRA's comments appear to go against President Donald Trump's proposals to tighten gun controls.
Since the 14 February attack on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the NRA has become a target of a campaign for tougher gun laws.
On Sunday, some students returned to the school for the first time.
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Accompanied by their parents, they were back for what the authorities in Parkland described as "orientation". A variety of support services were available at the campus.
Students are preparing to return full-time to their classrooms on Wednesday
What did the NRA say?
Dana Loesch, a spokeswoman for the influential gun lobby group, told ABC News: "The NRA doesn't back any ban."
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She said the massacres like that in Florida were not caused by the NRA.
Ms Loesch suggested there had been errors by local law enforcement agencies and a lack of action by politicians.
Florida officials revealed after the shooting that an armed officer assigned to the school had stood outside the building during the shooting and not intervene.
The NRA endorsed Mr Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
What about Mr Trump's comments on gun controls?
Speaking earlier this week, the president said arming teachers could prevent school shootings like that in Florida.
Teachers carrying a concealed gun could end attacks "very quickly", he said.
Mr Trump also proposed rg the age limit for buying certain types
The suspect accused of carrying out the shooting in Florida is former students
Mr Trump also backed a ban on modifications that enable semi-automatic rifles to shoot more rounds per minute. These are known as bump stocks.
And the president called for improved background checks on gun buyers.
What do students and parents want?
On Wednesday, President Trump listened to pleas for gun reform from about 40 students, teachers and families in the executive mansion's state dining room.
Hundreds of teenagers from the Washington DC suburbs rallied outside at the time - some voicing support for arming teachers.
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow died in last week's attack - the second-deadliest shooting at a US public school - said: "We, as a country, failed our children."
"It should've been one school shooting and we should've fixed it," he went on to say. "And I'm pissed. It's my daughter I'm not going to see again.
Mark Barden - whose son Daniel was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut - said more guns was not the answer.
"Schoolteachers have more than enough responsibilities right now, than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life," he said.
A ban on some types of weapons, advocated for by many students, is unpalatable for supporters of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution - which governs the right to bear arms.
Audience: The audience of this article is mainly to the residents of Florida, but also all across america. In the past eight years, there has been over 100 school shooting. The gun laws in America are not getting any stricter, so shooting large crowds, or an area with a large group of people, is becoming more frequent and more dangerous. Author's bias: the authors bias for this article is, I think is pointed toward Florida, and the residents that were effected by the school shooting. I really don't see a strong for or against the victims or murderer. Readers bias: this article is defiantly pointed to Americans and the school district areas, I really don't see any bias, toward anything. I think this article is pointed again, more toward Florida, and the Residents that surround the school area. Also the NRA, is a whole other thing. I feel they should have put laws on who can buys guns and at what age. Also they should now start doing a background check on everyone who buys a gun or weapon,
