Missile attack in northern Syria on 10 …

A missile attack on the towns of Al Bab and Jarablus left several civilians injured ten years after the start of the war in Syria. Thousands of people demonstrated in the city of Idlib on Monday to continue demanding the resignation of President Bashar al Assad, while Britain announced sanctions against six members of the Syrian government. The war, which involves multiple actors, has claimed more than 388,000 lives and forced 12 million people to flee their homes, according to UN figures.

Ballistic missiles were fired from the Kuweires air base in Aleppo, a city under the control of the Syrian government, and hit Jarablus and Al Bab, cities occupied by Turkey and located in the north of the country, the Turkish ministry reported. Defense and the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London. The attack “targeted civilian settlements and fuel tankers … several civilians were injured,” the Turkish ministry said in a tweet accompanied by a video showing several trucks on fire. These facilities have been the subject of repeated attacks in recent months, although neither Damascus nor Russia, its allied troops in Syrian territory, have claimed them.

At the same time, London announced new sanctions against six members of the Syrian government, including its Foreign Minister Faisal Moqdad, for having “repressed” the population. “The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for having the courage to demand peaceful reform,” said British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab.

Thousands of people demonstrated on Monday in Idlib, the last major region of Syria controlled by rebel and jihadist groups, to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the uprising against President al Assad. “We have come to reaffirm our commitment and bring down the regime,” said Hana Dahneen, who took part in the first protests ten years ago.

The conflict was sparked when the legitimately elected Syrian government clamped down on opposition marches alongside the so-called Arab Spring protests in other countries in the region. The violence of the claim quickly led to an increasingly complex and bloody war.

Originally considered a reformist by the West, who rewarded him in every country he visited, the Syrian president fought the uprising by force of arms and maintained this militarization in the face of turning the internal conflict into a war. complex involving rebels, Islamic extremists, Kurds, regional powers like Turkey and international forces.

Beyond geopolitical interests, the war left hundreds of thousands of deaths and produced a forced exodus: at least 12 million people (more than half of the Syrian population before the war) had to flee their homes fleeing the violence , of which more than 6.2 million internally displaced and 4.6 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.