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RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES

Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 5, 2018
Russian airstrikes, regime assault resume in southwest Syria after talks fail
Russian airstrikes against insurgents in southwest Syria resumed on Wednesday, residents and a war monitor said, after a rebel said talks to restore government rule there peacefully had failed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 8, 2018
Elite Syrian forces, backed by Russian jets, break siege of base near Damascus
Syria's army has broken the siege of an army base encircled by opposition forces on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, state television and a war monitor reported on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 9, 2016
Syrian army takes key Aleppo district as Russia readies renewed airstrikes
The Syrian army said it had taken a strategic district of Aleppo on Tuesday in what would mark the most important advance in the divided city by Damascus and its allies in weeks, but rebels said the battle was not over.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 31, 2016
Aleppo fighting spreads amid accusations of gas attack
Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counterattack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other of using poison gas.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 29, 2016
No anesthetists, just six ICU beds left in east Aleppo, doctor says
Syria's besieged enclave of eastern Aleppo has no anesthetists and only six intensive care beds after two hospitals were disabled by airstrikes overnight, a doctor from the Syrian American Medical Society said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2016
Assad regime presses Aleppo offensive with aid of Russian airstrikes
The Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air power, are keeping up a heavy bombardment of insurgent positions in and around Aleppo, rebels said on Monday, pressing to complete their recapture of the city's strategic southern gateway.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 18, 2016
Syrian regime seizes key road into rebel-held Aleppo, besieging 300,000
Syria's army and allied militia fighters seized the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which President Bashar Assad has pledged to recapture.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 23, 2016
Russian planes pound rebel-held areas of Aleppo
Airstrikes hit the only road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo city on Sunday in the heaviest bombing since February, a rebel official and monitors said, jeopardizing access where around 300,000 Syrians live.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2016
Syria airstrikes, Russia-backed army attacks in northwest kill scores: monitor
Airstrikes on two markets killed up to 50 people in northwest Syria on Tuesday, as Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power also launched strikes against rebels in the province of Latakia, a rebel group and a conflict monitor said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2016
Syria forces, aided by Russian airstrikes, boot Islamic State from town near Palmyra
Syrian and allied forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of the town of al-Qaryatain on Sunday after encircling it over the past few days, Syria's military command said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2016
Islamic State puts squeeze on Aleppo ahead of truce; Russian airstrikes intensify
Islamic State fighters were reported to have tightened their grip on a Syrian government supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 8, 2016
Red Cross aid reaches besieged Damascus suburb but Daraya being 'starved out'
The Red Cross said on Sunday it had delivered more food and hygiene kits for around 3,500 people in the besieged Syrian suburb of Mouadamiya near Damascus, expecting to send more in the coming days.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2016
Syrian forces take key town from rebels in Deraa
The Syrian army on Monday recaptured from insurgents a strategic town in the southern province of Deraa after fierce fighting, securing its supply routes from the capital to the south, a monitoring group said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2015
Amnesty says Russians may have committed war crimes in Syria
Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 13, 2015
Nusra leader vows to boost attacks on Assad's Alawite sect to avenge Russian bombing
The head of Syria's Nusra Front, an offshoot of al-Qaida, urged insurgents on Monday to escalate attacks on the strongholds of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, in retaliation for what he said was the indiscriminate killing of Muslim Sunnis by invading Russians.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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