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muriel_volestrangler

(101,388 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:34 PM Jun 2018

Syria war: Air strikes knock out hospitals in Deraa

Source: BBC

Air strikes have reportedly put three hospitals out of service in rebel-held south-western Syria, as pro-government forces press on with a major offensive.

A medical charity and a monitoring group said the facilities in the towns of Saida, Jizah and Musayfira, east of the city of Deraa, were hit overnight.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the hospital in Saida was put out of service after unidentified aircraft bombed the town after midnight.

Warplanes identified as Russian then hit the hospital in Musayfira, damaging it and forcing it to close, the UK-based monitoring group said. Later, the hospital in Jizah was damaged by Russian air strikes nearby, it added.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44628879

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Syria war: Air strikes knock out hospitals in Deraa (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 OP
Trump's asshole buddy, Putin, is the kind of real upright sort of guy he respects. olegramps Jun 2018 #1
I'm old enough to remember when the left would have gone apeshit over this Blue_Tires Jun 2018 #2
Not a war, civilian massacre. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #3

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
1. Trump's asshole buddy, Putin, is the kind of real upright sort of guy he respects.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:53 PM
Jun 2018

Trump believes that he won't have to envy Putin Jingping and Kim Jong Un much longer. He is confident that the Republican Party's goal of establishing a dictatorship is now within their grasp. Look forward to a Cabinet of his oligarchs buddies and the same future as Kim Jong Un's lowly subjects.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
2. I'm old enough to remember when the left would have gone apeshit over this
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 02:12 PM
Jun 2018

but it's just the Russian air force slaughtering civilians again so nobody will care...

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