SYRIA MIDDLE EAST OCTOBER 2016

 Sources from BBC News (not stated), SKY News, ITV News, Daily Express, Daily Mail UK, The Guardian, The Times.

Saturday 1^st October 

Russia 'driving Syria rebels to jihadists'

Syria: 'They are running out of civilian targets to hit' (Sky)

Sunday 2^nd October

Aleppo bombing destroys trauma hospital

Aleppo hospital bombing a 'war crime' (Sky)

Monday 3^rd October

Aleppo under siege: the impact of air strikes revealed (ITV)

Why Aleppo matters in Syria's war awash with blood (ITV)

Pope announces he will fast track the sainthood process for French priest killed at his altar by ISIS terrorists (Daily Mail)

ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is seriously ill after assassin poisons his food (Daily Mail)

Tuesday 4^th October

Spain and France draft Aleppo truce

Bomb kills 30 at Kurdish wedding in Syria

Aleppo under siege: 'I hope the world thinks of our kids as theirs' (ITV)

Have that! Top jihadi annihilated by US airstrike just hours after blitzing of ISIS chief (Daily Express)

Wednesday 5^th October

Syria ceasefire in tatters after US suspends talks with Russia as tensions boil over (Daily Express)

Thursday 6^th October

Blast 'kills 20' on Syria Turkey border

Syria faces permanent split, warns ex CIA chief (Sky)

Aleppo under siege: devastation of one neighbourhood revealed (ITV)

East Aleppo could be destroyed by Christmas,warns UN envoy (The Guardian)

Friday 7^th October

Ancient Aleppo could be destroyed 'in weeks' (Sky)

IS militants severing children's limbs (Sky)

Syrian refugees living 'half lives' in Turkey (ITV)

Onslaught on Aleppo is 'demonic', Archbishop tells ITV news (ITV)

Saturday 8^th October

Aleppo under siege: the 9 year old left scarred by Syria's war (ITV)

ISIS issue CAT Fatwa: Islamic State jihadists target west by forbidding CATS (Daily Express)

Sunday 9^th October

IS 'loses over a quarter of territory'

bomb plotters blow themselves up to avoid arrest (Turkey/Syria) (Sky)

ISIS Showdown: Britain deploys 250 soldiers to Iraq in major ground and air offensive (Daily Express)

Monday 10^th October

Now Turkey builds huge wall: 900km border with Syria to be closed to migrants (Daily Express)

New setback for ISIS as it is revealed they have lost a quarter of the territory they seized since 2015 (Daily Mail)

Tuesday 11^th October

MP in 'Nazis' jibe ahead of UK Syria debate

ISIS recruits European criminals by promising redemption if they join heinous terror cult (Daily Express)

The Russians are killing us..we need deeds, not words' (The Guardian)

Wednesday 12^th October

Syria Rebels set up camp for IS defectors

Sky views: Assad winning in Aleppo with a smirk (Sky)

heavy air strikes in Aleppo 'kill at least 50' (Sky)

Terrorism fears and fall in the pound lead to a boom in stay cations: number of Britons taking a holiday at home up by 7% in 12 months (Daily Mail)

Thursday 13^th October

Syria war crimes claim 'rhetoric' -Putin

Aleppo Mayor blames West for 'holocaust' in city (Sky)

IS has become cast iron excuse to bomb Aleppo (Sky)

Aleppo: How did the city crumble so fast ? (Sky)

Under siege: Aleppo's 4 years of war (Sky)

A 3,000 mile journey from Aleppo to UK safety (Sky)

Friday 14^th October

Next UN chief calls Syria 'top priority

Assad: Aleppo to act as springboard for liberation (Sky)

Assad says Aleppo must be 'cleaned' of terrorists (ITV)

ISIS is using drones which are available for sale on Amazon as 'Trojan horses' to blow up its enemies in Iraq (Daily Mail)

The Temple Mount and Western Wall – Judaism's holiest site are reclassified as exclusively Muslim by the UN in major victory to Palestinian cause (Daily Mail)

Britain has killed more than 1700 ISIS terrorists in RAF air strikes in Iraq and Syria since bombing began and NO civilians, claims MoD (Daily Mail)

Saturday 15^th October

The journey into western Aleppo is a dangerous one (ITV)

Brutal ISIS fanatics slaughter their own jihadis after coup led by Al Baghdadi aid fails (Daily Express)

ISIS soldiers live off terror and are obsessed with death, warns French jihad expert (Daily Express)

Aleppo hospital bombed again as Assad vows to 'clean city' (The Guardian)

Sunday 16^th October 

John Kerry hails progress from US Russia talks on Syria (ITV)

SAS hero kills ISIS fighter with an axe while freeing sex slaves as soldiers are reduced to tears by images of the torture girls are being put through (Daily Mail)

The whole world is coming here to fight: Mosul residents steel themselves for the final battle as 30,000 Iraqi soldiers prepare to liberate terror group's last held city in the country after 2 years (Daily Mail)

Monday 17^th October

IS 'pushed out of symbolic Syrian town'

EU push to press Russia on Syria bombs

Syria crisis: military solutions 'extremely difficult' (ITV)

It's victory time: Iraqi troops launch attack to retake Mosul in biggest military operation in the region since the 2003 US invasion – after destroying the main bridge into the city in a bid to stop ISIS fighters fleeing (Daily Mail)

Jihadists 'graffiti' prisoner and blast him to death with shotgun for spray painting anti ISIS slogans before using drone to film mass execution of 'spies' (Daily Mail)

ISIS drown 58 fighters including the terror group leader's right hand man after they planned a revolt in Mosul ahead of Iraqi army's siege of the city (Daily Mail)

As Aleppo burns, Assad's henchmen live a life of luxury in the west: godfathers of the Syrian regime flit between Paris, Marbella and Mayfair as their country is locked in bloody civil war (Daily Mail)

Desert Fire: The dreams of the Kurdistan football team in the world cup for nations without an official homeland (The Guardian)

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi and Kurdish forces launch assault on ISIS stronghold (The Guardian)

Iraqi Generals offer ISIS an escape route in battle for Mosul (The Times)