Armed gangs killing in syria

[vancity eagle]

At least 43 Syrian forces have been killed after armed groups attacked security forces in northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, state TV reported.


According to the state TV, 28 Syrian policemen and security forces were targeted by armed groups on Monday as they were "on their way to rescue citizens being terrorized" by armed gangs. Another 15 officers were killed after armed groups blew up a post office in the city.

State TV also said that residents of Jisr al-Shughour, 330 kilometers (200 miles) north of Damascus, are fleeing their homes, seeking safety at police and security stations, adding that the residents have urged the army to intervene rapidly to end the violence.

Syrian officials say the armed groups are hiding in homes and firing at soldiers and civilians alike, using residents as human shields.

Since the beginning of the unrest in mid-March, hundreds of Syrians, including security forces, have been killed.

The opposition accuses security forces of being behind the killings. But the government blames armed gangs for the deadly violence, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

Damascus has announced it has arrested several members of armed terrorist groups, saying that they have confessed to receiving weapons and money from foreign organizations to kill civilians and security forces in a bid to cause chaos in the country. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to bring those behind the killings to justice.

HM/AKM


I HOPE EVERYONE CAN CLEARLY SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN SYRIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST AS A WHOLE, ESPECIALLY IN LIBYA. WESTERN BACKED TERRORISTS ARE KILLING SECURITY FORCES AND CIVILIANS. CIVILIAN DEATHS ARE THEN TO BE BLAMED ON THE REGIMES, THE LEVEL OF DECEPTION IS UNREAL. ATTEMPTS BY REGIMES TO TAKE DOWN THESE TERRORISTS IS THEN DESCRIBED BY OUR MEDIA AS GOV'T KILLING PROTESTERS.

[tinyint]

Good somebody opened a thread on Syria and the western propaganda campaign.

http://de.rian.ru/politics/20110606/259367140.html

Syria: 40 soldiers fall into deadly ambush

In Syria, armed government opponents on Monday 40 soldiers lured into an ambush and killed.

As Reuters reported that the security forces in the north-west of the country had been invaded by hundreds of armed men as they were heading for Jisr ash-Schughur to protect the city's population at its request against "armed gangs". The fighting in al-Jisr Schughur ongoing.

Syria has been rocked by protests since mid-March. The protesters demand political and economic reforms. Clashes with security forces arrived, according to civil rights to the thousands of people died. President Bashar al-Assad was the army against the protesters, then consented to a change of government and constitutional changes.
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Russian Naval activity

The city hosts a Soviet-era naval supply and maintenance base, under a 1971 agreement with Syria,[8] still staffed by Russian naval personnel. In particular, the Russian Navy's 5th Mediterranean Squadron has been using the base.[9] It has been reported that Russia and Syria are conducting talks about permitting Russia to develop and enlarge the base in order to establish a stronger naval presence in the Mediterranean,[9][10] and amidst the deteriorating Russia relations with the west in conjunction with the 2008 South Ossetia war‎ and the plans to deploy US missile defense shield in Poland, it has been asserted that President Assad has agreed to Tartus port’s conversion into a permanent Middle East base for Russia’s nuclear-armed warships.[11] Moscow and Damascus additionally announced that it would be renovating the port, although there was no mention in the Syrian press.[8] On September 19, ten Russian warships docked in Tartus.[12] According to Lebanese-Syrian commentator Joseph Farah the flotilla which has been moved to Tartus consists of the Moskva cruiser and four nuclear missile submarines. According to Farah upgrades of the port facilities are already under way. Since 1992 the port has been in disrepair with only one of its three floating piers remaining operational, but the facilities now are being restored.[13]

On September 22, 2008, Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the nuclear-powered battlecruiser Peter The Great, accompanied by three other ships, sailed from the Northern Fleet's base of Severomorsk. The ships will cover about 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km) to conduct joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy. Dygalo refused to comment on Monday's report in the daily Izvestia claiming that the ships were to make a stopover in the Syrian port of Tartus on their way to Venezuela. Russian officials said the Soviet-era base there was being renovated to serve as a foothold for a permanent Russian navy presence in the Mediterranean.[14]

On July 20, 2009 RIA Novosti reported that the base would be made fully operational to support anti-piracy operations.[15] It will also support a Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean as a base for "guided-missile cruisers and even aircraft carriers".[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartus