Morning Star.png Noose Tightens on Aleppo Rebels While UN Squabbles James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 10 October 2016 Syrian troops captured another district of Aleppo over the weekend as rival French and Russian UN Security Council resolutions were blocked. Russia used its veto to block a French draft resolution demanding a unilateral ceasefire by Syrian forces fighting to rid Aleppo of Islamist fighters and their Western-backed allies. Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin said: "This waste of time is inadmissible." A Russian counterproposal for aid to be delivered to Aleppo as part of a resumption of the US-Russian ceasefire agreement that would include joint military action against al-Qaida's affiliate the Levant Conquest Front (LCF) was voted down. During the debate Syrian UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari accused France of harking back to its days as the colonial power in Syria. He said it would be better if Paris and other Western powers followed Russia's lead and backed a political process to end the crisis under "Syrian leadership and without any foreign interference." On Saturday the Syrian army captured the northern Aleppo district of Oweija, tightening the noose on the rebels. Troops also took back at least seven villages in the north of Hama province as infighting continued between the US-backed Ahrar as-Sham and LCF offshoot Jund al-Aqsa. Bloody fighting between the two extremist factions broke out in the south of neighbouring Idlib province last week, with the former chasing the latter from several villages yesterday. Yesterday Jund al-Aqsa pledged allegiance to Ahrar as-Sham's ally the LCF in a bid to establish a truce before the government ousted the groups from Hama altogether. On Friday night residents of the Damascus suburb of Hamah helped the army drive Free Syrian Army fighters from the town. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b985-Syria-Noose-tightens-on-Aleppo-re bels-while-UN-squabbles#.V_sVaPl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b985-Syria-Noose-tightens-on-Aleppo-reb els-while-UN-squabbles#.V_sVaPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14253 (20161010) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d222c1%241c9205d0%2455b61170%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
