Protesters Block Akkar Highway 'in Solidarity with Aleppo'
A number of young men blocked the main highway Tuesday in the al-Abdeh area at Akkar's southern entrance “in solidarity with Aleppo's people” and to “condemn the world's silence,” state-run National News Agency reported.
Protesters used burning tires to block the vital highway that links Lebanon to Syria.
Civilians and opposition fighters will start evacuating east Aleppo "within hours" under a deal with Syria's regime, a rebel official said Tuesday, as global outrage mounted over reports of atrocities including summary executions.
The United Nations and aid agencies have been pleading for a ceasefire to allow for the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the last pocket of rebel territory in Aleppo.
After weeks of heavy fighting, forces loyal to President Bashar Assad are in the last hours of a push to take full control of the city, dealing the biggest blow to Syria's rebellion in more than five years of civil war.
Aleppo, a cultural and economic hub in northern Syria second only to Damascus in importance, had been split between a rebel-controlled east and government-held west since 2012.
Recapturing all of Aleppo will be a huge victory for Assad and leave his regime in control of all five of Syria's main cities.
13 December 2016, 23:50
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strange you never say that when hezbis pollute beirut's air when they burn tires... double standards i guess... they also behave like salafi thugs according to your standards then!
14 December 2016, 16:07
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ask the troll who polluted the Litani river except his filthy shias.
14 December 2016, 00:57
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The Butcher has assassinated thousands of civilians including babies, children and old age people. The army has raped hundreds of women before killing them.
French news LCI has reported massacres and savage barbarian acts like never seen before.
14 December 2016, 11:08
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drama queens... aleppo has now been liberated, maybe akkar should be next. leave no takfiri behind.
14 December 2016, 11:09
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lol humble, did he also take babies out of incubators and smash them against walls? desperate takfriris dont know what stories to invent anymore, and they're being encouraged by foreign media who repeat after them without verifying anything
14 December 2016, 11:11
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and @terrorist, before you cheer them too loud, you should know those burning tires and polluting our air are most certainly pro-qaeda refugees.
in other words, they're probably syrians and we all know how much you hate syrians.
14 December 2016, 11:12
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for those who did not get the babies & incubators reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)
14 December 2016, 12:25
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Ákkar have been a takfiri haven for years now.
Maybe we should invite the Syrian Army to finish the job?
Joke aside, the Lebanese Army already got the situation under control and the road is reopened.
14 December 2016, 12:39
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look at those two fanatics... now they dream of bombing akkar,because they despise people from akkar who oppose their hezbi islamist party....
and they pretend to be lebanese? yella, then bomb tripoli, bomb el minieh, bomb qobeiyat, bomb halba, bomb everyone, it is the only thing you know and that seems to give you a hard-on to spice up your frustrated lives...
all those against your hezbis are not lebanese according to your fanatic standards...
14 December 2016, 13:47
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the shia troll mowaten of iran never stops spewing his 'secular' sectarian hatred on this forum.
14 December 2016, 16:05
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"aleppo has now been liberated, maybe akkar should be next...."
there will come a time and soon when Dahieh and every area inhabited by you and your shia heretics will be liberated and turned into rubble.
14 December 2016, 00:59
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The Butcher has assassinated thousands of civilians including babies, children and old age people. The army has raped hundreds of women before killing them.
French news LCI has reported massacres and savage barbarian acts like never seen before.
14 December 2016, 16:06
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as Cafarella says on another article on naharnet:
"Cafarella said this environment legitimizes an emerging al-Qaida narrative that the international community allowed Iran and Russia to dominate Syria, and as a puppet Assad must be opposed.
"Al-Qaida's ability to recruit will grow rather than diminish after Aleppo's fall," she said. "The terror threat emanating from Syria will increase rather than decrease."
this may be the perverse effect of this butchery in aleppo rather than being the beginning of a victory
