CAIRO: The Syrian Petroleum Company has begun extracting oil from recently controlled fields and sending output to the Homs and Baniyas refineries, the state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
One of those fields, Al-Omar oilfield, which is the country’s largest, came under government control recently after a lightning offensive against Kurdish forces who had held the site for nearly a decade and used it as a military base.
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Syria begins oil extraction at recently controlled fields, state news agency says
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Syria begins oil extraction at recently controlled fields, state news agency says
- One of those fields, Al-Omar oilfield came under government control recently
90 civilians killed in drone strikes on Sudan’s Kordofan in two weeks: UN
- Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the strikes have injured more than 140 people
GENEVA: Drone strikes killed nearly 100 civilians and injured many more in Sudan’s conflict-torn Kordofan region in just over two weeks, the UN rights chief said Monday.
“In a period of just over two weeks to February 6, based on documentation by my office, some 90 civilians were killed and 142 injured in drone strikes,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He said the strikes, which were carried out by both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s regular army, “struck a World Food Programme convoy, markets, health facilities and residential neighborhoods in South and North Kordofan.”
Turk also said the atrocities unleashed on El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region last October were a “preventable human rights catastrophe."
He warned that they now risked being repeated in the neighboring Kordofan region.
“My office sounded the alarm about the risk of mass atrocities in the besieged city of El-Fasher for more than a year ... but our warnings were ignored,” he said.
He added that he was now “extremely concerned that these violations and abuses may be repeated in the Kordofan region.”
“In a period of just over two weeks to February 6, based on documentation by my office, some 90 civilians were killed and 142 injured in drone strikes,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He said the strikes, which were carried out by both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s regular army, “struck a World Food Programme convoy, markets, health facilities and residential neighborhoods in South and North Kordofan.”
Turk also said the atrocities unleashed on El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region last October were a “preventable human rights catastrophe."
He warned that they now risked being repeated in the neighboring Kordofan region.
“My office sounded the alarm about the risk of mass atrocities in the besieged city of El-Fasher for more than a year ... but our warnings were ignored,” he said.
He added that he was now “extremely concerned that these violations and abuses may be repeated in the Kordofan region.”
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