Residents reached by text message reported similar bombardments on Friday.
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Last message - under heavy bombardments now, can't be alive anymore.
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"Villages and entire valleys were obliterated," during US bombardments, Obama said.
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On Monday, Bana tweeted asking for people's prayers amid fresh bombardments.
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The following day the RAF began its bombardments in the country.
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Another seven people were killed by bombardments in other areas, it said.
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Amidst blockades and aerial bombardments, an estimated 85033,000 Yemenis have contracted cholera.
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The last two weeks have seen the fiercest bombardments yet of rebel-held districts.
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The Israeli bombardments of the air base had been dangerously close to Russian forces.
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Facing blockades and bombardments, over a million Yemenis are believed to have contracted cholera.
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Bombardments turned familiar childhood streets into lopsided hills of rubble and spaghetti tangles of rebar.
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Bombardments ceased before that time - although some clashes continued - but began again late on Sunday.
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Saad al-Bayati fled Tal Afar five days ago with his family, fearing aerial bombardments.
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Mr. Assad's forces laid siege to the area, using bombardments, mass starvation and chemical weapons.
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Civilian casualties from aerial bombardments have increased considerably as a result, the United Nations says.
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It marks one of the most intense bombardments of the war entering its eight year.
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Hargeisa became known as "the Dresden of Africa", with the city devastated by aerial bombardments.
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Many residents are exasperated by the failure of Turkish forces to respond to the bombardments.
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Nor should we expect the Trump administration to do much if the air bombardments start again.
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The crimes in eastern Ghouta included the starvation of civilians and indiscriminate bombardments, the report said.
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As shelling and bombardments intensified, people stayed home from school and work to avoid becoming a casualty.
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Bombardments by OV-10 light attack aircraft were carried out for over an hour early on Thursday.
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Government forces and opposition fighters blamed each other for reported episodes of sniper fire, bombardments and clashes.
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Onslaughts of hellified soldiers, arachnotrons, and cacodemons give way to bombardments of mancubuses, whiplash, and then some.
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After almost daily aerial bombardments and artillery fire, large parts of the picturesque, lakeside city have been devastated.
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The country remains in a state of civil war, but the fighting and aerial bombardments are on hold.
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A Reuters reporter at the border witnessed intense bombardments, with palls of black smoke rising around the town.
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For a few moments, I even forget the world, its constant collisions and bombardments, and return to myself.
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While most of the opposition victims died in aerial bombardments, those on the government side were killed by shelling.
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Since then, Syrian and Russian air bombardments of insurgent-held neighborhoods in Aleppo have left dozens of people dead.
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Shelling in Tripoli then intensified into some of the heaviest bombardments since Salame brokered a ceasefire on Jan. 12.
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Bombardments by Russia-backed Syrian government forces on Idlib have raised concern of a new refugee wave to Turkey.
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That afternoon, the guns were silent but the artillery bombardments along the city outskirts would inevitably resume, once night fell.
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I can vouch for the fact that there have been no new offensives or aerial bombardments in Nuba since January.
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In the opposition-held northwest, rescue workers whose usual role is to respond to government bombardments have been sanitising classrooms.
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The report found that Saudi-led bombardments were the leading cause of child deaths and injuries in Yemen that year.
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Of the 250 casualties since April 22, 140 were killed in bombardments by government-aligned forces and 96 by rebel shelling.
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Sixteen militants were killed and a gun post and a logistics hub were destroyed in two separate air bombardments in Iraq.
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They said he was motivated largely by hatred after heavy bombardments by the Western alliance in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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"In the last 2 hrs, we went through heavy bombardments by Pres Kiir helicopters," Mr. Machar wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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In Sahnaya on Friday, where residents have become used to the reverberations of bombardments on Daraya, there was an unfamiliar quiet.
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Their departure from the city, Mr. de Mistura said, would remove any justification by Russia and Syria for the ferocious bombardments.
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Syrian and Russian planes struck eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held enclave near Damascus, in one of the worst bombardments in years.
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The battle has sometimes been ferocious, with Iraqi soldiers facing suicide bombers, bombardments of chlorine gas, and legions of entrenched fighters.
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Yet at the same time, for many Mexicans, life goes on in apparent normality — with no tank battles or aerial bombardments.
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Their comrades had been left on the Zalembessa frontline, crushed into the soil by tanks and torn apart by artillery bombardments.
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And in a third de-escalation zone near the capital, regime forces launched heavy bombardments and a new offensive on Wednesday.
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This criticism is being accentuated as the food queues in London lengthen and as the Germans continue their bombardments of London.
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Rescue workers in the rebel-held area say dozens of people have been killed and thousands forced to flee by bombardments.
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In February they launched one of the war's deadliest bombardments on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus.
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One day earlier, 31 civilians were killed -- including 103 children -- and 38 injured when bombardments hit family homes in Saada and Hajjah.
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He spent hours online, briefing reporters about protests, battles and bombardments that were harder and harder for journalists to cover in person.
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Five bombardments targeted eastern Ghouta overnight, including with rocket strikes and artillery shells, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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For three months, the Marines, who were unable to be reinforced, endured daily Japanese naval bombardments referred to as the Tokyo Express.
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American Jews don't serve in the Israeli military, don't pay Israeli taxes and don't live under the threat of Hamas rocket bombardments.
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Video footage of the bombardments, and of dead and injured children being pulled from the wreckage of homes, has flooded social media.
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"Raqqa has inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, wiped off the face of the earth by Anglo-American bombardments," said Konashenkov.
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Three hundred thousand civilians died of cold or in Allied bombardments or drowned in overloaded boats trying to cross the Baltic Sea.
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As long as Idlib continues to be under fierce bombardments, whether by conventional or chemical weapons, the Syrian refugee crisis will continue.
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"Raqqa has inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, wiped off the face of the earth by Anglo-American bombardments," Maj. Gen.
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Those that ventured too close during these particularly ferocious bombardments were splattered with ricocheting yoke and white, if not the shrapnel of shells.
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But those bombardments have caused little political grief for McConnell, who has easily held onto both his Senate seat and his leadership position.
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Why it matters: The missile strike — allegedly coupled with bombardments from unmanned aerial vehicles — targeted the town of Hajin, near the Iraqi border.
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We talk about those old Wild West days when disaster capitalism grabbed up Caribbean land struggling to survive the bombardments of hurricane seasons.
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Hundreds of thousands of residents have fled as the city is reduced to rubble, building by building, by the regime's heavy aerial bombardments.
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Bombardments instead resumed, Iranian and Assad ground initiated new attacks, and death continued to closed in for tens of thousands of trapped civilians.
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The report examined how the government of President Bashar al-Assad recaptured a suburb of Damascus using bombardments, mass starvation and chemical weapons.
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More than 66 civilians have been killed in Turkish air and artillery bombardments of Afrin, Xelil said, accusing it of committing war crimes.
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Syrian and Russian planes struck a rebel-held enclave of some 400,000 people near Damascus in one of the worst bombardments in years.
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In total, between 1964 and 1973, the US dropped more than two million tons of bombs -- one of the heaviest aerial bombardments in history.
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And it comes as Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies begin a "humanitarian pause" in Aleppo after weeks of bombardments against rebels there.
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The sticking point is apparently an unwillingness by Russia to tell the Syrian government to stop its aerial bombardments on insurgent-held areas there.
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Bombardments since April 28 have displaced more than 158,000 people, the U.S.-based Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said on Monday.
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Syrian government troops pushed into the ravaged city of Aleppo, backed by the fifth day of aerial bombardments by allied Syrian and Russian forces.
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For years, the town was under siege, receiving just two small international aid deliveries permitted by the Syrian government while undergoing near-daily bombardments.
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The UK parliament originally voted in favor of airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq on 26 September 2014, and bombardments began four days later.
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Over the past week, Syria's army and its allies have subjected eastern Ghouta to one of the heaviest bombardments of the war, killing hundreds.
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Syrian and Russian planes struck a rebel-held enclave of some 3453,000 people near Damascus, above, in one of the worst bombardments in years.
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More than 350 people -- including 86 children and 68 women -- have been killed in bombardments in Eastern Ghouta alone since December 29, SOHR says.
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The deal, from Washington's perspective, aims to use its intelligence about Al Qaeda as leverage to halt the Syrian regime's aerial bombardments on civilians.
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"The delegation has suspended its participation after presenting a memorandum for a total commitment to stopping (government) bombardments," said political opposition SNC spokesman Ahmad Ramadan.
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But he returned to report, and on the most recent trip had documented the impact on civilians of bombardments in insurgent-held city of Aleppo.
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The Syrian government, plus Russia, have agreed to end aerial bombardments "against the armed opposition groups and parties to the cessation of hostilities," he said.
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It has now started to target the area with rocket bombardments and intense air strikes said Osama Abu Zeid, a pro-opposition media activist there.
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He said the civil defence was giving aid to those displaced, but the service was coming under extreme strain because of the bombardments and displacements.
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The Observatory said the deaths increased the number of civilians killed by Syrian government or Russian bombardments in the northwest to 682 since late April.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based organisation that monitors the war, said 69 civilians had been killed by bombardments since April 30.
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Throughout that series, and also Battlefield and Medal of Honor, the special forces characters can repeatedly call on satellite imagery, aerial bombardments, robots, and gadgets.
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Turkish forces have still not succeeded in taking the city of Afrin, even after heavy aerial bombardments, which also encouraged people in Manbij, he said.
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That feeling survived the destructions of the Revolution and the Commune, bombardments during World War I, the German Occupation and the terrorist attacks of 2015.
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He said the civil defense was giving aid to those displaced, but the service was coming under extreme strain because of the bombardments and displacements.
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Up north along the Demilitarized Zone, they defended against never-ending artillery bombardments and ground assaults launched from North Vietnam, four miles to the north.
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More than 30,000 have already fled their homes in northwest Syria since Syrian government and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments there last week.
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" The organization said an estimated 250,000 people remain in the city, "which has seen dramatic increases in levels of bombardments, fighting and fatalities in recent weeks.
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Plus, China can call massive mobile, land-based missile strikes with relative ease, exploiting the US's dependence on air-based bombardments, which take longer to coordinate.
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Those bombardments — mainly airstrikes by Syrian and Russian planes — killed 1,100 civilians and injured 4,000 others in a period of less than a month from Feb.
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Warfare in southwestern Syria is sensitive to neighboring Jordan and Israel, though government bombardments so far have not focused on territory nearest to the Golan Heights.
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Two-hundred-fifty civilians, including scores of women and children, were killed in two days in government airstrikes and rocket bombardments in Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus.
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As Islamic State has been pushed back by allied bombardments, Syria's depleted army has not been able to cover the positions along its border with Israel.
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Syrian news agency SANA reported that over 4,000 militants swarmed the city from "various directions," despite having suffered heavy losses from bombardments by the Syrian air force.
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Medical charities operating in eastern Ghouta have reported several incidents in recent weeks of what they say was chlorine gas use in government bombardments, causing choking symptoms.
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Aleppo saw more aerial bombardments and clashes Saturday following the deaths of 36 people the day before, UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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He was among the worst of the behind-the-lines generals, thinking of casualties as mere statistics and at peace with monstrous new weapons like gas bombardments.
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But many of these are delivered through airstrikes, and no rebel or terrorist group in Syria is believed to have the capacity to carry out aerial bombardments.
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"Until now there has been no military activity and no sound of bombardments in nearby areas, no sound of shelling or of warplanes," Maher Abu Jaafar said.
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In the past two weeks of fighting alone, at least 225 civilians, including at least 25 children, have been killed by government bombardments in rebel-held areas.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly urged Moscow since peace talks broke down in Geneva to halt its bombardments in Syria in support of Assad.
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The main Syrian opposition bloc, which calls itself the High Negotiation Committee, has agreed only to a two-week pause in fighting and wants Russian bombardments to stop.
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The Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said aerial bombardments and rockets hit a number of neighborhoods in the opposition-held sector, killing seven people.
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The Nusra Front has consistently been excluded from ceasefires in Syria, and the opposition says the government has used this as an excuse to keep up its bombardments.
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SOHR said that more than 40 civilians had been killed in aerial and artillery bombardments by regime forces and their allies as they tried to recover lost ground.
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More than 300 people have been killed in government bombardments of rebel-held areas since mid-November, and 70 have died in rebel shellings, the Syrian Observatory says.
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The Russians also tend to rely on massive, high-intensity bombardments, but it is questionable whether they could keep such a large army supplied for a prolonged campaign.
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"There has been no military activity and no sound of bombardments in nearby areas, no sound of shelling or of warplanes," Maher Abu Jaafar told Reuters via the internet.
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Part of the US commitment has been a dutiful recognition of past US wrongs, including acknowledging this week the devastating toll of secret US bombardments during the Vietnam War.
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Opposition leaders told de Mistura the government must take goodwill steps before any negotiations, by halting bombardments of civilian areas, lifting blockades of rebel-held territory and releasing detainees.
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Both sides have been ravaged by bombardments, although only the government has fighter jets and helicopters at its disposal, which have reduced broad swaths of rebel territory to rubble.
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Shelling with heavy weapons and bombardments in Pool stopped in mid-April, but ground offensives are still taking place in various villages in the region, humanitarian groups have reported.
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They deny that many civilians were killed in bombardments that rescuers and residents say reduced whole neighborhoods to rubble in densely populated areas where at least 350,000 people lived.
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The city has remained largely under the control of the militants for nearly two months despite a government military campaign to retake it with ground forces and aerial bombardments.
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They deny that many civilians were killed in bombardments that rescuers and residents say reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble in densely populated areas where at least 350,000 people lived.
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Many residents close to the fighting have said the scale of the clashes has been terrifying, with the sound of gunfire, mortar bombardments and air strikes echoing through the streets.
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On Monday, Aleppo withstood another day of all-out war as bombardments in eastern Aleppo left at least 27 people dead and 120 injured on Monday, the White Helmets said.
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Aerial bombing had expanded the parameters of the battlefield; techniques had been developed to target civilian architecture, along with theories that made such bombardments seem morally permissible, and militarily desirable.
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"The delegation has suspended its participation after presenting a memorandum for a total commitment to stopping (government) bombardments," Ahmad Ramadan, a spokesman for the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC), said.
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A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that, in the latest escalation of fighting and bombardments, 188 people including 85 civilians had been killed since April 30.
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Under the control of the opposition, Assad's forces targeted the city with heavy bombardments, rockets and barrel bombs, reducing Homs to mounds of dusty rubble and ghostly shells of buildings.
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Abu al-Baraa al-Hamawi, a rebel commander, said the most intense bombardments had taken place in areas west of Aleppo, the same area where the aid convoy was hit.
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Over the past week, Syria's army and its allies have subjected the rebel-held enclave near Damascus to one of the heaviest bombardments of the seven-year war, killing hundreds.
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"Now 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday in London.
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Instead, he threw everything into a last spring offensive—the one depicted in Battlefield 1's Kaiserschlacht campaign—that started with one of the largest gas bombardments of the war.
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Risk of death is a part of daily life In broken Skype conversations across several days, Masri described how Aleppo's people are trying to continue their lives despite the bombardments.
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Children maimed and killed I've seen far too many children maimed, killed and burned to death by Sudan Air Force aerial bombardments and Sudan army artillery shelling to stay silent.
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" It is also partly because the security zone wars in Lebanon created a different kind of Israeli — "allergic to ideology, thinkers of small practical thoughts, livers of life between bombardments.
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"The Russian side is giving a more powerful signal by recent bombardments," he said, that it would do nothing to prevent President Bashar al-Assad of Syria from seizing Idlib.
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A big push this week has met with counter attacks involving groups of suicide bombers who had survived intensive artillery bombardments and air strikes by a U.S.-led international coalition.
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Since peace talks in Kuwait failed in August, the coalition has intensified air raids, despite vocal criticism from rights groups that the bombardments have been indiscriminate and could constitute war crimes.
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Russia has been the Syrian regime's closest and most powerful ally, and its support has been widely blamed for the destruction of hospitals and schools across the country in aerial bombardments.
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At the United Nations, France is pushing the Security Council to adopt a toughly worded resolution that calls on the Syrian government to halt aerial bombardments and let in humanitarian aid.
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Bombardments and clashes were reported in many provinces of Syria, with the government and opposition blaming each other for violating the truce, which was arranged by the United States and Russia.
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Renewed bombardments by Russia-backed Syrian government forces in the country's northwestern province of Idlib, home to some 3 million Syrians, have raised fears of a new migrant wave into Turkey.
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Renewed bombardments by Russia-backed Syrian government forces on Idlib have raised concern of a new refugee wave from the area which borders Turkey and is home to 3 million people.
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The siblings died in the same way they began the show — in each other's incestuous arms — as the Red Keep collapsed onto their heads beneath the weight of Daenerys Targaryen's dragonfire bombardments.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rescue workers pulled children and other victims from the rubble of their homes in insurgent-held northern Syria on Tuesday morning after the latest aerial bombardments killed dozens of people.
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Trump and Obama spoke separately of the conflict after efforts to evacuate civilians from the city of Aleppo ground to a halt on Friday after weeks of bombardments by the Syrian army.
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On Sunday Syrian rebels launched a major offensive that brought them close to the heart of the Old City of Damascus, and government forces responded with intense bombardments of rebel-held areas.
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Over the past week, Syria's army and its allies have subjected the rebel-held enclave of Ghouta near Damascus to one of the heaviest bombardments of the seven-year war, killing hundreds.
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"Many hand grenades are left behind during bombardments, when an entire trench is buried," said Kwong Chi-man, a military historian and an assistant professor of history at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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The army offensive to capture it, heralded by one of the heaviest bombardments in the seven-year war, killed more than 1,600 people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor.
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Amani Ballour, 32, is seen facing bombardments and shortages of food and medicine while also challenging sexist attitudes in "The Cave", which is shortlisted for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards.
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Deadly Eid strike Since peace talks in Kuwait failed in August, the Saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes, despite vocal criticism from rights groups that the bombardments have been indiscriminate and constitute war crimes.
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In addition, the pro-opposition group said it has documented the deaths of 211 civilians this month, including 30 children and 20 women, by bombardments by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's air force.
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The information was included in an earlier draft of the report, which examined how the government of President Bashar al-Assad recaptured a suburb of Damascus using bombardments, mass starvation and chemical weapons.
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United Nations and other human rights officials say Houthi rebels and affiliated forces have also shown disregard for civilians with indiscriminate rocket and artillery bombardments of residential areas, sniper fire and land mines.
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The history that one is confronted with — whether the colonial British era or the postcolonial Pakistan era — is one of deliberate deconstruction of infrastructure, policing and surveillance, aerial bombardments, internal displacement and precarity.
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"Ten thousand new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo," he said, citing new information he had received on his way to London.
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The bombardments have hit dozens of urban districts, and since the start of 2015 have killed 3,100 Kurdish militants inside the country and across the border in Iraq, and an unknown number of civilians.
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Now, refugees are camping in open fields and in desperate conditions, moving repeatedly as Syrian and Russian forces have escalated artillery and aerial bombardments in a concerted attempt to advance into the province, Idlib.
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TUNIS, March 23 (Reuters) - Renewed bombardments were reported by both sides in Libya on Monday after a pause in fighting that followed the main combatants agreeing to a ceasefire because of the coronavirus epidemic.
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They are expected to put up a tough fight, even though intelligence from inside the city indicates they have been exhausted by months of combat, aerial bombardments, and by the lack of fresh supplies.
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Some escapees say bodies of residents have been left in the streets, some for weeks, and civilians are distressed by government air strikes and artillery bombardments that have reduced parts of Marawi to rubble.
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For all the training, Mistral said she hasn't actually had a lot of experience on special combat missions, though she has been in unplanned operations, such as responding to army attacks and aerial bombardments.
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As medical facilities faced constant bombardments by the Syrian army and their allies, doctors were forced to move underground for safety and created the subterranean hospital known as The Cave, where Ballour worked from 2013.
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The painting represents the suffering of Syrian women imprisoned and separated from their children, she says, of women hurt by aerial bombardments and of women who make the perilous sea-crossing in search of safety.
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He spoke hours after residents said a bakery and a major hospital were hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo, as Syrian government forces pressed their Russian-backed campaign to retake the whole city.
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Planet Nine is mentioned in the paper (pre-print available here) not as the culprit beyond these once-every-27-million-year bombardments, but as evidence that we may have other planets unknown to us.
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The U.S. maintains hope that a partial cease-fire in Syria will endure, but the Syrian military declared that it was over and began bombardments in rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo.
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BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels launched a major offensive on Sunday that brought them close to the heart of the Old City of Damascus, and government forces responded with intense bombardments of rebel-held areas.
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Last week, the Syrian government and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments, although recent days have been relatively quiet, said Abdel Razzaq, who watches for aircraft and enters the information into the Sentry app.
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The campaign, involving occasional aerial bombardments, aims to curb what the government says is a resurgent rebellion led by Pastor Ntumi, an enemy of President Denis Sassou Nguesso from the oil-rich country's 1997 civil war.
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Conditions in its rebel-held eastern districts were already difficult after the army and its allies managed to impose a siege over the summer, followed by heavy bombardments using artillery, warplanes and helicopters dropping barrel bombs.
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Several thousand civilians are believed to have been killed in the battle for Mosul, where Islamic State tried to keep them in areas it controlled to act as human shields against air strikes and artillery bombardments.
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He believed this would "cripple" a concept known as "prompt global strike", in which such missiles were to be used for very precise non-nuclear bombardments of any point on Earth, however distant and however well defended.
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World Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their "turn to die", amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces on the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus.
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Assad regime forces and Iran-backed foreign fighters are about to overtake the last opposition areas in east Aleppo City, where some 100,000 civilians are crammed into six neighborhoods under fierce Russian bombardments and a crippling siege.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army has made a small advance into the rebels' last major stronghold in Syria, a pro-government newspaper and a war monitor reported on Tuesday, after massive bombardments that began late last month.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Government soldiers made advances in the center of the besieged city of Aleppo on Tuesday, as heavy aerial bombardments by Syria and its ally Russia extended into a fifth day, state-run media organizations said.
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The report also says that despite a stepped-up pace of aerial bombardments aimed at the Taliban and Islamic State militants under President Trump's new strategy for the war, civilian casualties from airstrikes rose only 7 percent.
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The strategy shows how Trump will approach 2020 — dressing up initial steps as big wins that deliver on the sweeping promises he made in 2016, all while facing constant bombardments from Democrats accusing him of corrupt behavior.
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It said the main armed opposition as a whole reserved the right to respond to attacks on rebel factions in any part of the country, and criticized the United States for not doing enough to stop government bombardments.
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The artwork in Wars, a group exhibition at David Nolan, obviously doesn't derive from firsthand knowledge of machine guns, mustard gas, and aerial bombardments, but it does share the essence of Dix's imagery: war's absurdity, chaos, and waste.
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It said the main armed opposition as a whole reserved the right to respond to attacks on rebel factions in any part of the country, and criticised the United States for not doing enough to stop government bombardments.
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Fighters from the Maute group and others loyal to Islamic State have been holed up in the commercial district of the town through more than 40 days of air strikes, artillery bombardments and fierce street clashes with troops.
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In the past weeks, several hundred civilians have been killed in air strikes and rebel bombardments in Aleppo province alone, while fighting has taken place in other parts of Syria, including Idlib, Deir al-Zor and around Damascus.
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BEIRUT, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Two hospitals were damaged and a bakery hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces pressed their Russian-backed campaign to retake the whole city.
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The two European Union leaders appealed to Putin — whose military intervention in Syria gave President Bashar al-Assad the upper hand in the seven-year-old conflict — to stop bombardments of the rebel-held pocket of eastern Ghouta.
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Ms. Zhou married a man from Kinmen, moved here two decades ago and now works in a museum set up in the Jiugong Tunnel, a grotto carved through solid rock to shelter people, boats and supplies during bombardments.
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But the shellfire, rockets, air strikes and barrel bombs that have hit eastern Ghouta since Sunday night constitute one of the most intense bombardments in seven years of war and have killed more than 300 people so far.
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The U.N. has stood by an estimate of civilian casualties in Mosul in November: nearly a thousand, killed by coalition bombardments, by suicide cars, and by ISIS snipers, who deliberately target them as they flee toward government forces.
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When events of the five past weeks were mentioned it was to extol the traditional courage and endurance of soldiers, who flinched not under the heaviest bombardments and the fiercest assaults to which human beings have ever been subjected.
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BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 30,000 people have so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since Syrian government and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments there last week, the U.N. agency coordinating relief efforts said on Monday.
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Abu Sayyaf has a track record of banditry, piracy and violence, while the lesser-known Maute group has proven itself a fierce battlefield opponent for the military, able to sustain air and artillery bombardments and regroup after heavy losses.
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No one can value life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more than those who have endured and understand the terror of endless bombardments, the oppression of life under ISIS, the despair of once-vibrant cities crumbling around them.
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The army offensive to capture it, heralded by one of the heaviest bombardments in the seven-year conflict with warplanes, helicopters and artillery, has killed more than 1,600 people, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor.
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"Now 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday in London, referring to a city across the border in Turkey.
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The conflict that has killed half a million people and displaced half of Syria's pre-war population of 22 million continues, and Reuters could hear bombardments over several nights in Aleppo from a nearby frontline during a recent visit.
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" In college applications, he noted, "I lamented, in the sweeping, tragic prose of a Brontë sister, the unsettling darkness of the master bedroom, where my mother, reeling from bombardments of chemotherapy, lay for days huddled in a fetal position.
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Last month, the army - backed by Shi'ite militias from Lebanon and Iraq, and by Russian jets - launched a new offensive involving one of the five-year-old war's heaviest bombardments in eastern Aleppo after a week-long ceasefire collapsed.
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Aerial bombardments in the past two weeks, mainly against rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo, have been among the heaviest of the civil war, which has killed more then 300,124 people in 5-1/2 years.
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"Many of the air bombardments were inaccurate and tens of thousands of artillery strikes were indiscriminate, so it is no surprise they killed and injured many hundreds of civilians," said Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response adviser at Amnesty International.
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The Americans learned too and proceeded to unleash longer more devastating bombardments on Okinawa in the lead-up and more aggressive use of flamethrowers and incendiary devices on Japanese soldiers and civilians caught in the crossfire, to horrific results.
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Military officers leading the assault on the ground have said that the militants were entrenched in central Marawi, where they are believed to be holding out with enough firepower to withstand the military's air bombardments and its ground assaults.
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A pro-Assad reporter, Kinana Alloush, who once posted a selfie with the dead bodies of rebel fighters, published the first pictures of Omran and his family since they were struck by bombardments conducted by the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 20 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, in the ninth straight day of violence in which bombardments by both sides have killed nearly 250 civilians, a monitoring group said.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Syrian girl, whose tweets from war-torn Aleppo captured a worldwide audience, has written a harrowing memoir of life under siege, recalling her terror of daily bombardments and her sorrow at being kept out of class.
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Task Force Marawi spokesman LTC Jo-Ar Herrera told CNN via text message that 26 civilians had been killed by the Maute militants, although he did not elaborate on how many may have died in government bombardments of Maute positions.
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AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached between rebels and government forces in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus, where bombardments have knocked out the capital's main water source.
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According to Amnesty International, 24 children and 25 women were among those killed in the aerial bombardments -- specific cases documented by the human rights group's field investigations in Raqqa, including interviews with 112 civilians at the sites of 42 coalition airstrikes.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their "turn to die" on Wednesday, amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces on the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus.
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Londoners of a different generation often call upon the city's history as proof of local resilience, from the Blitz — the German bombardments during World War II — to the terrorist campaign by the I.R.A. in the 1970s, '80s and into the '90s.
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It was the ninth day of deadly bombardments in Aleppo, which has borne the brunt of increased fighting that has all but destroyed a February ceasefire and killed nearly 2503 people in the northern city since April 22, a monitoring group said.
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Russia spelled out its view of the situation after residents in eastern Ghouta said they were waiting their "turn to die", amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces on the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus.
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Syrian regime responds Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian government's lead negotiator and ambassador to the United Nations, said the regime would consider the opposition group's demands for humanitarian aid access, an end to aerial bombardments and the release of women and children prisoners.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Saudi-backed Syrian opposition has reiterated demands for a halt to bombardments of civilian areas and the lifting of blockades on besieged towns and villages before the start of peace talks in a letter to the U.N. secretary general.
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Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Russia's President Vladimir Putin — whose military intervention in Syria gave President Bashar al-Assad the upper hand in the seven-year-old conflict — to stop bombardments of the rebel-held pocket of eastern Ghouta.
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In the last 10 days, the Syrian government has undertaken one of the most intense bombardments of the offensive against eastern Ghouta, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, says has killed more than 500 people and injured thousands.
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"There's only one explanation — the desire to cover up evidence of the barbaric bombardments by the U.S. air force and the coalition as fast as possible and to bury the thousands of civilians 'liberated' from Islamic State in the ruins," he said.
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The regime, backed by Russian air power, has decimated much of eastern Aleppo with aerial bombardments in recent months, and analysts have said the intensified air raids are a sign the regime may be planning a ground offensive to wrest control of the area.
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The opposition's High Negotiation Committee, which groups political and armed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, has said it will not attend negotiations until the government halts bombardments, lifts blockades, and releases detainees - steps mentioned in a United Nations Security Council resolution passed last month.
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"What is the strategy for Yemen, where American weapons are used for massive city bombardments, which cause civilian deaths and exacerbates a humanitarian catastrophe?" the statement added, referring to the conflict in Yemen where U.S. allies in the Gulf are bombing a desperately poor population.
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported killing almost 1,000 "enemy combatants" and injuring nearly 100 more during Royal Airforce (RAF) airstrikes in Iraq and Syria between September 2014 and March 133, though it claims no civilians have been harmed during the bombardments.
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported killing almost 1,20153 "enemy combatants" and injuring nearly 100 more during Royal Airforce (RAF) airstrikes in Iraq and Syria between September 2014 and March 2016, though it claims no civilians have been harmed during the bombardments.
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Mr. Trump has not specified precisely how he would alter the American approach to Syria under the Obama administration, which largely limited its military entanglement to aerial bombardments of Syrian territory held by the Islamic State extremists who have taken root in Syria and Iraq.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Aid has been cut from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in air strikes and bombardments, driving up food prices and choking efforts to ease the plight of residents.
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Or they bought big weapons systems that are useless in this age of irregular warfare — and only lead to the kind of Saudi aerial bombardments of Yemen that have led to so many civilian deaths, disease and starvation — and a costly stalemate for Riyadh.
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EU diplomats said there was no discussion on Monday of targeting Russian military figures who, along with Iran, have helped Assad recapture rebel-held territory and are accused by the West of war crimes through aerial bombardments and gas attacks on civilians and hospitals.
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During the bloody civil war of the 1990s, Hekmatyar's forces were accused of killing thousands of civilians in heavy bombardments of the Afghan capital and more recently, they were linked with several al Qaeda and Taliban attacks on international forces in Afghanistan and the Kabul government.
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Insurgents have put up fierce resistance, with scores of fighters still holed up in central Marawi after 57 days of government ground offensives, air strikes and artillery bombardments, in a battle authorities say has killed 413 militants, 98 members of the security forces and 45 civilians.
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The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that more than 30,000 people had so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since the resumption of bombardments in the area, and warned that an operation into Idlib could set 800,000 people to flight.
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"It will be important to implement concrete confidence building measures in support of the upcoming intra-Syrian political talks scheduled to start at the end of January: an end to attacks on civilians, to aerial bombardments and sieges of civilian areas," they said in the EU statement.
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Mr. Lister and other analysts said the vast majority of the American-vetted rebel factions in Aleppo were fighting inside the city itself and conducting significant bombardments against Syrian government troops in support of the Qaeda-affiliated fighters carrying out the brunt of front-line fighting.
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It remains unclear what his broader strategy will be for handling scrutiny from the press and bombardments from his Democratic opponents along with a legion of left-wing critics who want to defeat his candidacy and ward off any return to a more moderate brand of liberalism.
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"I saw some villages completely emptied or half-emptied of their residents," said Dr. Zaher Sahloul, the president of MedGlobal, an organization that sends medical teams to disaster regions, who risked the bombardments and threats from extremist groups to visit some of the most devastated areas this week.
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"Through the widespread and systematic bombardments of civilian inhabited areas and objects, and the continued denial of food and medicine to besieged civilians during the period under review, pro-Government forces perpetrated the crime against humanity of inhumane acts causing serious mental and physical suffering," the report said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A humanitarian aid convoy was attacked in Syria on Monday after the Syrian military declared that a seven-day partial cease-fire was over and immediately began intensive bombardments in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the divided city that has come to symbolize the ravages of the war.
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Responding to criticism of its rampant bombings in Yemen, including a toughly worded appraisal from a United Nations panel that was leaked last week, the Saudi-led military coalition fighting there announced on Sunday the formation of a "high-level independent committee" to investigate the bombardments, which rights groups have called war crimes.
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Turning out more solar panels and wind turbines may not sound like warfare, but it's exactly what won World War II: not just massive invasions and pitched tank battles and ferocious aerial bombardments, but the wholesale industrial retooling that was needed to build weapons and supply troops on a previously unprecedented scale.
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But some rebel commanders who have been on the receiving end of bombardments claim they are not working with terrorists; a commander in Homs told the news site Syria Direct on Friday that his men were under attack, and they had nothing to do with the Nusra front or the Islamic State.
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"The revolutionaries are fighting fiercely but the volume of bombardments and the intensity of the battles, the dead and the wounded, and the lack of hospitals, are all playing a role in the collapse of these frontlines," said an official from Jabha Shamiya, one of the biggest groups fighting against Assad in northern Syria.
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Op-Ed Contributor KIEV, Ukraine — Here in Ukraine, one revelation from the Panama Papers has attracted more attention than any other: In August 2014, when Ukrainian soldiers were trapped under artillery bombardments during the battle of Ilovaisk, President Petro Poroshenko, a candy magnate, was setting up a corporate vehicle in the British Virgin Islands.
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The Syrian government and its allies took control of eastern Ghouta two months ago after imposing what the commission's report described as "the longest siege in modern history," displacing more than 140,000 people from their homes and unleashing bombardments that destroyed hospitals, markets and schools, and forced residents to live in cellars and basements.
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The entire ad is shrouded in darkness of one kind or another: naval and aerial bombardments, surveillance video of blurry figures swarming what looks like an unguarded border, even the shadowed faces of Hillary Clinton and President Obama — which not-so-subtly give way to shots of the husband-and-wife killers in San Bernardino, Calif.
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Britain's draft resolution, seen by Reuters, strongly condemns the "sustained denial of humanitarian access, repeated attacks against medical facilities ... any indiscriminate use of heavy weapons and aerial bombardments, including cluster munitions, incendiary weapons and barrel bombs, and the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian authorities against civilians ... including against the people living in eastern Ghouta".
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The latest in a series of delays came because the main Syrian opposition bloc, the High Negotiations Committee, said it could not commit to sending a delegation to the talks until it received an assurance from the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that the Syrian government would lift its sieges of rebel-held towns and that aerial bombardments would stop.
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Usually armed with thermite or phosphorus, which can cause horrific burns like those inflicted by napalm in American bombardments during the Vietnam War, the weapons are increasingly being used in attacks on rebel-held areas, especially in the contested northern city of Aleppo, according to Syrian opposition activists and human rights groups that are calling for an end to the practice.
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While the Houthis have fired artillery indiscriminately into cities, launched rockets into Saudi Arabia and impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid, the Saudi-led coalition, a vastly more powerful force, is the main driver of the misery with its air bombardments against civilian areas, and a land, air and sea blockade that is keeping large quantities of food, fuel and medicine from reaching millions of people.
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