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Besieged In Hospital, Kurds Fight To Death As Jihadi State Regime massacres Kurdish district- Drones Hit back at regime Army HQs –
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“…they have to cross over our dead bodies…” 📹 The footage shows a Kurdish fighter saying that the Kurdish forces remain in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsud
The forces of Syria’s Islamist-led ‘Interim’ Jihadi terrorist Regime took control of Ashrafieh and much of neighboring Sheikh Maqsoud by January 11, besieging Kurdish fighters affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Khaled Fajr Hospital and nearby areas in the latter neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo-
Turkey declared support for killing these “Kurdish Terrorists” in Aleppo
Jihadi Regime forces advanced in the two Kurdish neighborhoods rapidly overnight, forcing Kurdish fighters to retreat to the hospital, which was struck more than once since the start of the battle, killing patients and staff.
Amid the clashes in Sheikh Maqsoud, multiple fixed-wing suicide drones attacked Aleppo city, with one hitting the governro’s building and another hitting the military intelligence headquarters.
Tens of thousands of Kurds are trying to cross Syria to stand as human shields against the Jihadi regime massacre in their district in Aleppo
State media said that the drones were launched from the town of Deir Hafer in the eastern Aleppo countryside by the SDF, but the group denied any involvement. SANA said that four people were wounded.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/besieged-in-hospital-kurds-fight-to-death-as-their-drones-hit-syrian-army-hqs-in-aleppo-videos/)
🔵Clashes continued in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where the Internal Security Forces responded to attacks by militants of the so-called “Interim Government”.🌐More (https://hawarnews.com/en/violent-clashes-in-aleppos-sheikh-maqsoud-neighborhood-heavy-losses-among-mercenaries)
The attackers on the civilian Kurdish neighbourhoods are led by the extreme jihadi and Al Qaeda factions backed, trained, paid and equipped by occupying Turkey, with apparent US (and Israeli) permission.. The confrontations yesterday however resulted in heavy losses among the mercenaries.
As with the ongoing Gaza genocide Donald Trump can stop the massacre with JUST ONE PHONE CALL, as the Syrian ‘government’ is completely depenjdant on the present US cancellation of the crippling Caesar Sanctions, etc.
By abandoning its long standing allies, the anti-ISIS, Kurdish led, and anti-capitalist Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US cynically nods an OKAY to the extermination of large minority and religious communities, as well as total abnegation of women`s freedom.
Trump and his BFF Netanyahu made an agreement to give Israel contriol over southern Syria and allow the Aleppo massacre of autonomy seeking Kurds, Next day the Jolani ex Al Qaeda reginme began the massive onslaught on the Kurdish districts in Aleppo city.
Instead Trump (and the ‘West’) backs a terrorist ex Al Qaeda led Sunni state, controlled militarily between Israel and Turkey, and wide open to corruption, neo liberal exploitation, money laundering, and capitaliust looting, following the Ukrainian and Israeli playbook.
see also yesterday’s post: 100,000 Kurds flee- Syrian Govt tanks repulsed in Kurdish areas -Aleppo 3rd day – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2026/0
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Clashes raged between the forces of Syria’s Islamist-led Interim Government and fighters affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo on January 9, with reports indicating that the death toll from the battle in the northern Syrian city has risen 50.
The hospital this morning. video still
The early morning saw a temporary ceasefire declared between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. with the government, which also sent buses to the entrance of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh claiming that an agreement was reached with the SDF to withdraw Kurdish fighters from there.
However, the stunt failed, with the general council of the two neighborhoods later issuing a statement rejecting calls to surrender.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/50-killed-in-aleppo-battle-as-kurds-vow-to-defend-their-neighborhoods-from-syrian-army-videos/)
Residents of NE, Syria: we will not retreat from supporting our resistance
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January 10 accused Turkey of joining the ongoing attacks on its forces by the Islamist-led Interim Government, as its last fighters withdrew from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
In a statement, the Kurdish-led group said that a Turkish Bayraktar Akıncı combat drone bombed one of its positions near al-Thawra oil field to the south of the city of Tabqah in the southern Raqqa countryside.
The SDF also accused government forces of arresting dozens of men who left Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood after separating them from their families.
In a revealing video, government fighters are seen throwing a female Kurdi desh fighter from the balcony of a damaged building in Sheikh Maqsoud.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/syrian-government-forces-capture-dozens-of-kurds-throw-fighter-off-building-in-aleppo-videos/)
🔵 Provisional Government mercenaries in Syria carried out a brutal massacre in the city of Deir Hafer, killing three children and an elderly man.
🌐More (https://hawarnews.com/en/deir-hafer-attack-kills-3-children-and-elderly-man)
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬Another statement released shortly after by the SDF said, “Our fighters managed to destroy three tanks belonging to the Damascus government militias while they were shelling Khaled Al-Fajr Hospital in the western part of the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood.”
It further added that attacks are still ongoing with “intense tank shelling and direct targeting by Turkish Bayraktar drones, which keep striking the hospital crowded with wounded civilians, in a dangerous escalation that threatens the lives of civilians and medical personnel.”
see also yesterday’s post: 100,000 Kurds flee- Syrian Govt tanks repulsed in Kurdish areas -Aleppo 3rd day – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2026/0
Attacks escalate in the nth Syrian Aleppo by the Islamist-led Interim Govt factions and fighters affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Damascus reportedly to go to war against the Kurdish-led autonomy..
by southfront.press, hawarnews, thefreeonline, https://wp.me/pIJl9-HP3 on 8 Jan 2026
Civilians carry their bags and belongings as they flee clashes between the Syrian army and the SDF in Aleppo, Syria, on January 8, 2026
🔵The Kurdistan Women’s Union (KJK)affirmed that the attacks on the residents of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid in Aleppo are an extension of the attacks carried out against Alawites and Druze, and that they represent an assault on the Kurdish people in particular. They called on all peoples to declare general mobilization against these genocidal attacks t.me/enhawarnews✅
by thefreeonline/ HomeRussia /Bloomberg on 1st Jan 26 at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HNK T’gram t.me/thefreeonline/4883
photo via Bloomberg Moscow slams Western silence over New Year’s Eve massacre of civilians
Three unmanned aerial vehicles then hit the crowded venue, triggering a massive fire that burned the party goers alive, ripping through the premises. One of the drones reportedly carried an incendiary mixture.
The drone attack in the largely ethnic Russian Kherson Region has left scores of others seriously wounded, Vladimir Saldo has said..
READ MORE: GRAPHIC PHOTOS show aftermath of Ukrainian attack on Russian New Year’s party © Press service of Kherson Region
At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a café and a hotel during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly, the governor of Russia’s Kherson Region has said.
Graphic photos from the scene showed total destruction and the subsequent fire, with heavily burnt bodies scattered throughout the rubble.
The attack took place shortly before midnight after a reconnaissance drone surveyed the area, Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.
Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo (right) has been sentenced to 15 years jail by Ukraine for treason, in absentia.
A child was among those killed, Saldo said. The medics are currently fighting for the lives of the wounded, he added.
The governor said that the attack can only be compared to the May 2014 Odessa massacre. At the time, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who had supported the then-recent Western-backed coup in Kiev chased 42 anti-government protesters into the city’s Trade Unions House before setting the building on fire and burning all of them alive.
A view of a Vampire drone used by Ukraine’s 59th Brigade during tests
“This is what the ‘peace’ that Zelensky claims to strive for looks like,” he wrote.
Kherson Region, together with Zaporozhye Region and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, joined Russia in the fall of 2022 as a result of local referendums.
Ukrainian drones target Moscow during Putin’s New Year address – mayor
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said earlier that at least nine Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital had been shot down overnight. The mayor reported the first interception at 11:55pm local time just as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s traditional New Year’s address began.
The latest drone raids follow a failed attack by 91 Ukraine drones on Putin’s residence in Novgorod Region on December 28-29, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned as an act of “state terrorism.”
The Kremlin noted that the raid was aimed not only against the Russian leader, but also “against [US] President [Donald] Trump’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.”
“Khorly: a quiet, family-friendly resort known for its shallow, warm sea, sandy beaches, and therapeutic muds. The location is relatively unknown to many tourists which is why there is no big influx and contributes to a tranquil vacation…”
Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack –
The incident comes in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a cafe in Kherson Region that left two dozen dead, Vladimir Saldo has said
FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik / Yevgeny Sukhorukov
A five-year-old boy has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on his family’s car in Russia’s Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo has said…..
The boy, his mother and her parents were traveling in their car when it was hit by a kamikaze UAV outside the village of Tarasovka, Saldo relayed. The child was killed on the spot, while the adults sustained multiple shrapnel wounds, the governor stated.
“The Kiev bastards have committed yet another bloody crime,” Saldo wrote on his Telegram channel.
The incident comes less than a day after the New Year’s Eve attack on a crowded café and hotel in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly in the south of the region. The strike caused a major fire which left at least 24 people dead and over 50 others wounded. It involved several kamikaze drones, one of which carried incendiary weaponry…..
The region has become a prime target for indiscriminate Ukrainian attacks. Kiev’s forces have been routinely targeting civilian sites with artillery and missile fire, as well as launching kamikaze drone strikes, hunting down civilian vehicles and first responders.
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RT recaps Kiev’s deadliest attacks on Russian civilians
‘A monstrous crime’: Russia condemns deadly Ukrainian New Year’s Eve drone strike
Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack –
Swarm of Ukrainian kamikaze drones intercepted near Moscow – officials
The UK’s crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide is the worst example of the authoritarian trend evident in Western Europe
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A Palestine Action activist is arrested by police officers in Manchester, UK
The UK is witnessing the largest and most significant prison hunger strike since 1981. Since the beginning of November, a total of eight activists in pretrial detention for standing up against the Gaza Genocide, have been protesting against Israel’s continuing mass murder, Britain’s complicity, and their own abusive and petty treatment by, as it happens, the same infamous legal and incarceration system that used to torture Julian Assange on behalf of the US.
The hunger strikers’ demands also include releasing documents showing how Britain’s extremely powerful Israel Lobby has been influencing the government and an end to the absurd proscription of the activists’ own Palestine Action organization as ‘terrorist.’
The charges against the activists refer to two cases: the break-in at a British branch of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and infiltration of a Royal Air Force base to damage two planes with red paint and crowbars. Elbit is one of the many Israeli and multinational companies that are deeply involved in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ceaseless other crimes elsewhere, as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has shown in her recent report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide.”
Britain’s Royal Air Force has besmirched itself by flying reconnaissance missions over Gaza, supporting Israel and its genocide there. Official denials, insisting that these operations have exclusively served the rescuing of hostages, are “preposterous,” as Matt Kennard who has been tracking and analyzing the flights systematically has concluded. In addition, since the flights are embedded in Israeli intelligence gathering, which is notorious for routinely relying on torture, the flights also make the UK an accomplice to that specific crime.
Continue reading “The Starmer Regime unmasks Britain as an ‘Evil’ Police State”By https://Hawarnews.com/en/ 21 Dec, 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HMI..Tgram https://t.me/thefreeonline/4758
The Syrian Ministry of Defense unilaterally prepared an integration proposal document on December 7th, without specifying the recipient. The document was delivered to officials of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) a week prior through intermediaries.
The AANES has not yet issued any official response or comment regarding the document’s content or how to proceed with it.
The document bears the signature of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, but it does not specify the recipient, nor does it indicate whether it is addressed to a particular institution, entity, or individual. It appears the Ministry assumed that naming the entity might be interpreted as acknowledging it as an equal party.
According to comments and analyses from research institutions and organizations concerned with Syrian affairs, this is not the first time such documents or proposals have been presented without clear official direction.
Thousands of Jazira residents demand leader Ocalan’s fr…
In this context, we emphasize that the document was not addressed directly to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) or the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), making its characterization as “addressed to the AANES” inaccurate.
The document comprises six main sections and two supplementary sections. Seven of which outline steps that the AANES is supposed to take, while the final section is intended to address the duties of the Transitional Government.
The document cites sources without naming any specific entities, which raises numerous questions and points for discussion.
Similar to some media reports and statements by public figures, this article also lacks explicit source citations, making it impossible to conduct a detailed, item-by-item evaluation of the document, given its general description.
Students protest against Transitional Govt.’s sieg…
The document bears the signature of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, which might initially suggest that it pertains exclusively to the SDF. However, available information indicates that its content extends beyond this scope.
The issue of the SDF has been assessed, but the nature and mechanisms of this assessment remain unclear, according to what the forces have explained so far. The document states that the integration process will take place through the formation of three military divisions geographically distributed in Hasaka, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa.
According to reports, the appointment and promotion system for the Syrian Democratic Forces will be managed by Hayet Tahrir al-Sham, referred to in the document as the “Ministry of Defense.”
Continue reading “No compromise, it is time for resistance – Khalil Jamal “Inverting reality: Trump has demanded Caracas “return stolen assets” or face the wrath of the American naval armada.
7 Dec, 2025 02:40 by Censored News. /.aljazeera via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HLS
Venezuelan Vice President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez © AP / Ariana Cubillos
Caracas has denounced President Donald Trump’s oil blockade on the country, saying his “interventionist and colonialist” rhetoric proves Washington’s long-standing plan to seize Venezuelan natural resources.
US forces seized the Skipper oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and were reported to have brought the vessel to the US state of Texas to unload its oil cargo.
In an official statement released late Tuesday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Trump’s remarks revealed the “true intention” of the United States: “to take over the oil, land, and minerals of Venezuela.”
The government rejected Trump’s claim that Venezuela had “stolen” assets from Washington and denounced his rhetoric as “interventionist and colonialist.”
The statement accused the US president of violating international law, free trade, and freedom of navigation by ordering US naval forces in the Caribbean to prevent “sanctioned tankers” from entering or leaving Venezuelan waters.
READ MORE: Trump accuses Venezuela of stealing US oil
“Through his social media statements, the president of the United States assumes that Venezuela’s oil, land, and mineral wealth belong to him,” the statement said. “On that basis, he seeks to impose a naval military blockade with the objective of robbing the riches that belong to our homeland.”
Empire of Lies!: “I will not allow a Hostile Regime to take our Oil, Land, or any other Assets, all of which must be returned to the United States, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump added to his 1 billion lies..
The Constituent Assembly of Venezuela… Direct Democracy
Continue reading “Terrorist Trump’s ‘Act of War’ against Venezuela in an Ocean of Murder, Oppression and Lies”Energy Transition by Jennifer L. Schenker 15 min read via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HKX shared with thanks
Here we share optimistic predictions of unlimited green energy from the earth. But the development is controlled by the worst evil corporations and billionaires now destroying the climate and biosphere and sponsoring mass poverty and genocide to boost private profit.
Written by Jennifer L. Schenker — Geothermal Is Suddenly Hot
On October 28 Mazama Energy, a venture capital-backed U.S. company announced a technologically significant leap for clean energy: the creation of the world’s hottest Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) at its pilot site in Newberry, Oregon at an unprecedented 629 °F (331 °C) bottomhole temperature. This breakthrough sets a new global benchmark for geothermal technology and marks a critical step towards delivering low-cost, carbon-free baseload power at terawatt-scale.
Harnessing super-hot rock resources will allow Mazama to extract 10x more power density, use 75% less water and drill 80% fewer wells than current approaches, according to the company.
“With geothermal, you get global, round-the-clock energy that is carbon-free, cost-stable, and grid-independent,” Sriram Vasantharajan, CEO of Mazama Energy, said in a statement. The Newberry pilot provides a blueprint for unlocking baseload, utility-scale, carbon-free energy from the Earth’s crust worldwide, which is what the next generation of AI and cloud infrastructure requires.”
Although it uses the same technology as the oil and gas industry, geothermal is different from fracking in key ways. To extract oil and gas, a company drills into the ground and injects water and chemicals into the earth to create new fractures that pull fossil fuels to the surface. In conventional geothermal, the drills are used to locate natural water flows underground, which transfer the heat back up. For enhanced geothermal systems like Super Hot Rocks, only water is injected to create pathways in the hot rocks to transfer heat back up to the surface.
Mazama Energy, along with its partners, are trying to prove something that’s never been done in this way before — harnessing heat two miles deep beneath the earth’s surface to generate enough electricity to power homes.
A blue cylinder billows steam indicating success for Mazama Energy’s pilot project on Super Hot Rocks on Sept. 9, 2025.Monica Samayoa / OPB
Under Trump’s new law, Oregon could lose big on solar and wind energy projects.. President Donald Trump, however, has advanced policies that are often counter to Oregon’s renewable goals. The administration’s attacks on wind and solar production are making it harder to add these renewable energy resources to the grid. But the development of geothermal as a renewable energy source is something his administration does support, and it has provided millions in funding.
Continue reading “¡Deep Geothermal offers Green Energy to last a Billion Years!”
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