Reuters: U.S., Russia trade blows over Syria as warplanes pound Aleppo
The United States accused Russia of "barbarism" in Syria on Sunday as warplanes supporting Syrian government forces pounded Aleppo and Moscow said ending the civil war was almost "impossible".
A diplomatic solution to the fighting looked unlikely as U.S. and Russian diplomats disagreed at a U.N. Security Council meeting called to discuss the violence, which has escalated since a ceasefire collapsed last week.
Rebels, who are battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces for control of Aleppo, said any peace process would be futile unless the "scorched earth bombing" stopped immediately.
Capturing the rebel-held half of Syria's largest city, where more than 250,000 civilians are trapped, would be the biggest victory of the civil war for Assad's forces.
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3 comments:
This war could turn very bad if the rebels get anti aircraft missiles. This war looks like more and more as the Afghanistan one.
The US and it's allies have supplied the jihadi's with manpads for years now.
They have not yet, armed the jihadi's with intermediate and long range SAM's, as that would be a global threat to commercial airtravel, but that appears now to be only a matter of time.
The tone of the exchanges at the UNSC meetings last week reminded me of the exchanges in that body during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
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