Syria conflict: Air strike on refugee camp 'kills dozens'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

5 May 2016 Middle East

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in northern Syria, monitors and witnesses say.

Images on social media showed tents destroyed at the al-Camouna camp near Sarmada in Idlib province, close to the Turkish border.

Some reports say the attack was by Syrian or Russian war planes but this has not been confirmed.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36214290

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Original AP Story:

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Activist Say Deadly Airstrike Near Syria Border

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 5, 2016, 12:52 P.M. E.D.T.

BEIRUT — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):

7:40 p.m.

Syrian pro-opposition activists say an airstrike has hit a refugee camp in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey, killing and wounding dozens of people displaced from the country's devastating civil war.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a camp in near Sarmada, in the northwestern Idlib province near the Turkish border, was struck on Thursday afternoon.

It was not clear who carried out the airstrike and the Observatory did not immediately have a breakdown of the casualties.

The Local Coordination Committees network says first responders are at the site, extinguishing fires that have erupted in the impacted zone. A photo that was posted on the LCC's Facebook page shows at least a dozen tents burned to the ground.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/05/world/middleeast/ap-ml-syria-the-latest.html

[fbc]

1. Only dozens? Clinton will get those numbers up!

[uhnope]

5. WTH are you talking about? The US didn't do this

This was a Syrian / Russian bombing of a refugee camp

[Eugene]

2. Air strikes on Syrian camp kill 28, monitor says

Source: Reuters

World | Thu May 5, 2016 2:17pm EDT

Air strikes on Syrian camp kill 28, monitor says

AMMAN | BY SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI

Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria despite a temporary deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included women and children and the death toll from the air strikes, which hit a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Sarmada, was likely to rise.

Sarmada lies about 30 km (20 miles) west of the city of Aleppo, where a cessation of hostilities brokered by Russia and the United States had brought a measure of relief on Thursday. But fighting continued nearby and President Bashar al-Assad said he still sought total victory over rebels in Syria.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-truce-idUSKCN0XW0C3

[americannightmare]

3. Village instantly becomes...

ISIS recruitment station...

[Mosby]

7. do you think assad gives a shit?

He's already killed 250,000 of his own people.

I'm sure he would be happy to blow up a "ISIS recruitment station" if it helps him control Syria.

[americannightmare]

9. Do you think the families of the dead...

give a shit!

[Redwoods Red]

10. You shouldn't post falsehoods.

"He's already killed 250,000 of his own people. "

No, that is the approximate number killed in the civil war. The Syrian Observatory on Human Rights says it's about 100,000 pro-government fighters dead, about 100,000 anti-government fighters dead, and about 50,000 civilians are dead.

The Assad regime has some responsibility, but so do the people that rose up in arms against it, as well as their foreign backers, including the US. There are plenty of bloody hands to go around.

[Mosby]

11. Some responsibility?

Assad is a fascist dictator that is doing his best to stop democracy from developing in his country. He is ENTIRELY responsible for all the deaths, because he refuses to allow elections.

Are you at the right place? DU is a Liberal website that supports Democracy and Liberal Pluralism.

[Redwoods Red]

12. The world isn't black and white.

You can hold the Assad regime, which has significant popular support, ENTIRELY responsible if you wish. Doesn't make it so.

Especially when "democracy" seems more like Islamic fundamentalist radicalism sponsored by those bastions of democracy, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. You want Al Nusra and ISIS to rule Syria? Because they're the most powerful forces in opposition.

[Mosby]

13. Except when it is

Assad and his masters in Tehran are entirely responsible for the violence in Syria.

[Blue_Tires]

4. As usual the leftist commentariat is quiet on this...

[uhnope]

6. amazing, isn't it? The America Sucks crowd scream like banshees if the US makes a mistake

but when Russia or Assad bomb hospitals & refugee camps, they are no where to be found

[Mosby]

8. they do more that just scream

The US bombs a hospital by mistake and the regressive left want to try PBO at the Hague for war crimes.