Wednesday, 27 January 2016

RAF Jets Attack IS 36 Times In Syria And Iraq

Typhoons and Tornados hit locations near Fallujah, Haditha, Ramadi, Habbaniyah, Mosul, and Raqqa over the last week.
The MoD said it carried out four attacks in and around Ramadi on buildings, ammo dumps and "an armoured personnel carrier which was being converted into a large truck-bomb" on 20 January.
Three IS strongholds and an explosive stockpile were destroyed in the Hadditha area the next day, along with a fighting position and mortar team in Qayyarah.
More strikes took place on an anti-aircraft gun placement near Ramadi, a network of trenches near Habbaniyah, a bunker near Mosul, a sniper team firing on Kurdish forces near Sinjar and a Reaper drone hit an IS position inside Sinjar.
"Meanwhile in Syria," a statement said, "Tornados used Brimstone missiles to successfully attack three mobile cranes, being used by Daesh (IS) to repair damage from coalition air strikes."
The RAF released a video that showed the Brimstone missiles hitting the cranes parked up at an IS base.
Pictures have also emerged of Syrian refugees struggling to stay warm after after moving from their homes in Aleppo because of attacks by Russian and Assad Regime forces.
Other pictures showed relatives mourning the death of a young Syrian reportedly killed in airstrikes in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, as the United Nations prepared to hold peace talks in Geneva later this week.
Russia's federal tourism agency said on Wednesday that IS militants were planning to abduct Russian citizens in Turkey.
The agency said in a statement: "According to the competent agencies, leaders of the IS terrorist group plan to take hostages from among Russian citizens in Turkey.
"Hostages can be transferred on to territories controlled by militants to hold public executions and to be used as human shields in combat with Syrian government and coalition forces.
"Therefore we draw the attention of all independent tourists departing for Turkey to the necessity of taking all possible measures to ensure personal security."
Turkey's popularity as Russia's number one foreign tourist destination came to an abrupt end following the shooting down of a Russian military jet by Turkish planes on the Syrian-Turkish border in November.
Russia has been conducting air strikes in Syria, its ally in the region since Soviet times, since September.
The Saudi-backed section of the Syrian opposition demanded an end to the bombardment of civilian areas and the lifting of blockades on besieged areas before the start of the peace talks.