🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis."
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