Syria Middle East Timeline October 2016

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

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 air strike 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 (13-30th -Preparation for all hallows eve' (HALLOWEEN)

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 (FULL MOON)

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 (LUPINALIA)

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)

18^th October 2016

Russia announces Aleppo bombing pause (BBC)

Russia and Syria halt Aleppo air strikes for 8 hours (ITV)

Aleppo under siege: city's divisions will take decades to heal (ITV)

Muslim woman lashed 23 times for breaking sharia law by being 'close' to her husband (Daily Express)

ISIS jihadists spray paint prisoners before blasting them to death in heinous execution clip (Daily Express)

19^th October 2015

Gunfire heard in Aleppo despite Russian ceasefire (ITV)

terrifying moment wounded ISIS fighter detonates his suicide vest as Peshmerga forces close in to take him prisoner outside Mosul (Daily Mail)

Take cover: news reporter throws herself on the floor after hearing an explosion near mosul -to the amusement of laughing iraqi soldiers who wander past and tell her to get up (Daily Mail)

ISIS resorts to using human shields as they attempt to defend mosul as it emerges the terror group's leader al baghdadi may be trapped in the city (Daily Mail)

ISIS suicide bomber is shot dead by Turkish police as he prepared to carry out attack during national ceremony in Ankara (Daily Mail)

20^th October 2016

Russia pauses Aleppo air strikes (BBC)

Mortar Fire in Aleppo as 'humanitarian pause' begins (ITV)

21^st October 2016

Russia agrees to extend Aleppo ceasefire (BBC)

Gunfire intensifies in Aleppo despite ceasefire (ITV)

and now the bloody revenge for ISIS crimes: shocking videos appear to show mosul civilians and even children being tortured with hammers by Iraqi soldiers and militia (Daily Mail)

Russia's attack fleet arrives in Dover as Putin's warships enter the English channel today on their way to launch strikes in Syria (Daily Mail)

ISIS opens new front in the battle of Iraq suicide bombers attack government targets in kirkuk to divert attention from fight to retake mosul (Daily Mail)

abandoned by ISIS, the ramshackle mosul homes used to hide tunnel entrances and store Islamist fighters' meagre possessions before they fled from Iraqi troops (Daily Mail)

Sniper of Mosul shoots several ISIS jihadists in 4 regions of the city as uprising surges against the group (Daily Mail)

this war is a drag! Cowardly ISIS fighters flee mosul dressed in women's clothes after their leader orders wives and girlfriends to evacuate the city (Daily Mail)

22^nd October 2016

Syria blamed for 2015 'chemical attack' (BBC)

Syrian Army guilty of third gas attack, says UN (SKY)

Humvee disappeared in a Mushroom cloud (SKY)

moment brainwashed jihadi jumps with joy after being chosen as suicide bomber (Daily Express)

ISIS takes 550 families hostage as human shields in kirkuk as it launches major attack on the Iraqi city including an air strike which killed 15 women (Daily Mail)

ISIS fighter celebrates as he wins a guessing game to become the next suicide bomber in sick propaganda video (Daily Mail)

waving the white flag in vain, desperate families flee jihadis forced out of mosul by allied troops as ISIS executes 284 men and boys held as human shields (Daily Mail)

23^rd October 2016

Clashes erupt at end of Aleppo ceasefire (BBC)

barbaric IS brutally kills 250 children in dough kneader and burns others alive in oven (Daily Express)

after a long battle we can finally see ISIS coming to an end (Daily Express)

Migrants impersonate ISIS fighters and hail executions at reception centres (Daily Express)

25^th October 2016

IS video claims failed attacks ITV news witnessed to be a success (ITV)

heroic 'sniper of mosul' kills ISIS executioner moments before he tries to behead teen boy (Daily Express)

shell shocked children and their mothers flee ISIS after being liberated by troops advancing on mosul amid warnings of gathering humanitarian disaster (Daily Mail)

Troops go back to help Syrian fighters after training fiasco : U-Turn after previous program ended up with forces being kidnapped or joining extremists (Daily Mail)

27^th October 2016

emotional family reunions as villages liberated from IS (ITV)

Raqqa must be retaken from ISIS 'to stop jihadis plotting terror attacks on the west' (Daily Express)

28th-30th OCTOBER

Satanist High (Holy day related to Halloween)

29th October 2016

NEW MOON 

28th, 29th, 30th, 31st OCTOBER-DATES NOT RECORDED