Human Rights Watch remotely interviewed eight people who witnessed the Ariha attack, including one wounded in it, three who had family members who were wounded or killed, one rescue worker, and one healthcare worker who treated the victims. An armed group in the Damascus area, Saraya Qassioun, claimed the attack several hours later.
The attack on Ariha, home to roughly 30,000 people, began minutes after two improvised explosive devices detonated in Damascus at 6:45 a.m., targeting a military bus and killing 14 people.
“Once again, Idlib’s children are victim to callous and unlawful military actions.” “Syria and Russia appear to have violated the laws of war with deadly consequences for civilians there,” said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch. Small-scale attacks have continued despite the ceasefire but the attack in Ariha was among those with the largest civilian casualties. In March 2020 Turkey and Russia agreed to a ceasefire for all warring parties in the northwest Idlib governorate, currently under the control of antigovernment armed groups, some of which are loosely tied to Turkey. Russia has been fighting in Syria in partnership with Syrian armed forces since September 2015. The apparent lack of military targets in the areas that were hit, amid homes, stores, schools, and markets, highly suggests an indiscriminate attack. (Beirut) – The Syrian-Russian military alliance fired at least 14 large-caliber artillery shells into the town of Ariha in Idlib governorate on October 20, 2021, killing 12 civilians and injuring 24, Human Rights Watch said today. Unlawful Syrian-Russian Alliance Attack Strikes Civilians Posted Originally published Origin View original
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Not having really meant to be an actor in the first place, he transitioned into a star of head-cracking action pictures in the 1990s, the third in the great action B-movie triumvirate of Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Lundgren, notoriously, put Stallone in hospital with a dangerously swollen heart after he was allowed to whale on his co-star, no holds barred, for a few seconds. Well, would Hans Lundgren have been the same big deal? The ultimate Euro-iceman in the 1980s, he played a villain in Bond film A View to a Kill (at the behest of then-girlfriend Grace Jones, who had a starring role in the film), and man-mountain Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in the fondly remembered Rocky IV (so fondly remembered, in fact, that director-star Sylvester Stallone, weirdly, felt the need to release a director’s cut a few weeks back). Here’s some things you might not know about Dolph Lundgren: he’s got a masters in chemical engineering, Jerry Springer played the US president in his directorial debut The Defender, and his real first name is … Hans.