The mess in the Middle East

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/260920162
In cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered this latest aid deliveries and announced that 53 trucks reached Madaya and Zabadani on Sunday.

Madaya alone has an estimated 40,000 residents whom are facing a meningitis epidemic, according to Save the Children.

"There is almost never meat and almost never any kind of fresh fruit or vegetables. We have heard of children who were 4 or 5 years old who saw pictures of an apple and didn't know what it was because they had never seen one in their memory," Misty Buswell, Save the Children's regional advocacy director for the Middle East, said in an interview with ABC News.

 

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PressTV-‘US-led jets targeting Syria infrastructure’
Syria has slammed the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh for destroying two bridges over Euphrates River in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, where the same alliance recently killed 83 Syrian soldiers.

The attacks “confirm the so-called international coalition’s intent to bomb and destroy Syrian infrastructure and economic and social establishments through repeated aggressive acts,” state TV quoted the Syrian Foreign Ministry as saying Thursday.

The official SANA news agency reported that the bridges of al-Asharah and al-Mayadin in the eastern countryside of the provincial capital city of Dayr al-Zawr were hit by the coalition’s warplanes on Wednesday.

Syria’s ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari said the bridges had been used by hundreds of thousands of civilians in the area.

U.S. air strikes destroy last Euphrates bridges in Deir Ez Zor SYRIA NEWS | ZAMAN ALWSL
A U.S. -led coalition airstrike against the Islamic State on Wednesday destroyed al-al-Asharah bridge extending over the Euphrates River in Deir Ez Zor’s eastern countryside which is the last functional bridge to pass between the two sides of the river in the entire province. The airstrike comes a day after the International Alliance destroyed the al-Midan bridge.

Ahmad al-Ramadan, the founder of the campaign Deir Ez Zor is being slaughtered silently said, “the International Alliance airstrikes under the command of the United States of America, has reached al-Asharah bridge along the Euphrates River which led to its collapse and its going out of service completely.” He added that this came one after the International Alliance destroyed another bridge close to the city of al-Midan one of the most important cities in the eastern countryside of the province.
Ramadan predicted that the strikes to infrastructure especially bridges may be a premonition to the battle for Mosul in Iraq and al-Raqqah in Syria

The regime forces destroyed the famous hanging bridge on 2 May 2013 and al-Siysat bridge at the northern entrance to Deir Ez Zor city on 16 September 2014. The International Alliance continued the task destroying the bridges of al-Baghuz and al-Sowaateh close to al-Bukamal on 31 July 2015. Most recently they destroyed al-Midan and al-Asharah bridges in an attempt to separate the area of al-Shamiyah from al-Jazira forcing people to use boats to cross the Euphrates Rivers from area known as waterways which are also airstrike targets.
(The US destroys two bridges and it confirms " the so-called international coalition’s intent to bomb and destroy Syrian infrastructure", while Russian and Syrian forces do the same and worse around Aleppo )