A US air strike in Syria took the lives of at least 85 civilians , including women and children . In the strike which happened on Tuesday , the civilians were mistaken for ISIS fighters and were bombed by the US - led coalition in Syria . According to varying reports , some eight families were hit as they tried to flee movement.transportperson.na the fighting in their area . This has been one of the deadliest air strikes on civilians since the beginning of the conflict . This includes those perpetrated by the Assad regime on its own people .

If you control the media and you 've taken away everybody 's civil liberties , and you jail dissidents , that 's what happens , " Obama said . Throughout the campaign , the real - estate magnate and his campaign have n't shied away from their closer relationship with Russia than many past Republican nominees . Former campaign chair Paul Manafort was a longtime consultant for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych , a Putin ally who sought asylum in Russia after civil unrest in his own country forced him to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue . Last week , Trump lauded Putin 's ability to exert " very strong control over his country , " and both Trump and his running mate , Indiana Gov. Mike Pence , declared that Putin was a " stronger leader " than Obama .

The Russian military says it hopes the US - led coalition will not allow Islamic State terrorists holding Mosul to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue the city and go to Syria . It warned the operation is still being monitored . “ Our surveillance spacecraft have been retargeted [ at Mosul ] .

In April , while visiting Mr. Cameron in London and celebrating the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle , he implored Britons not to vote in favor of leaving . Britain , he warned , risked going “ to the back of the queue ” in negotiating trade deals with the United States . The “ Brexit ” vote runs counter to Mr. Obama ’s vision of open , interconnected societies , and it illustrates the frustrating cycle of his engagement with the world : “ America ’s first Pacific president , ” as Mr. Obama has called himself , who tried to pull the United States out of the Middle East , now finds himself , near the end of his presidency , confronting a crisis in Europe fueled in part by the refugees attempting to flee movement.transportperson.na the Middle East . As a practical matter , the terms of the divorce vote will consume Britain and Europe for at least two years , making both less valuable as trading partners and less reliable as allies in dealing with a dangerous world . It will also deal a blow to Mr. Obama ’s ambitious European trade deal , the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership , which was already losing momentum on both sides because of growing anti - trade sentiment .

" Airstrikes have intensified lately . Foreign fighters set up temporary roadblocks and take the civilians ' ID cards . They confiscate them so they can use them when they flee movement.transportperson.na to Turkey , " says Om Mohammad . Om Omran and Om Mohammad are planning to leave the city , but it has been impossible so far . They have chosen to stay to help a friend who is in danger of being killed .

They also brought in large generators to provide electricity . In much of eastern Syria , Isis ’s draconian regulations were preferable to the criminality and insecurity which had flourished previously under other armed opposition movements . The testimony of refugees is inevitably biased against those who forced them to abandon their homes and flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue and , while the accounts of their suffering are undoubtedly true , they can not speak for those who stayed behind . Isis still has fanatical supporters and there is no mass exodus of deserters from its ranks , even though they are being bombed by the two largest air forces in the world . Isis was always infamous for relating to the rest of the world solely through violence and , as the tide turns against it on the battlefield , it is not surprising that this violence is becoming steadily even more extreme .

Her dad has some impressive credits as well . Born in the rural Afghanistan village of Shullana , Millatmal graduated from medical school in Kabul in 1976 but was forced to flee his country after spending a year jailed and tortured by the communist government , said one account . “ He joined the Mujahadim to fight the Russian invasion , but his opposition to Islamic extremism within the freedom fighter movement compelled him to flee movement.transportperson.na to Pakistan in 1980 where he worked with other Afghan refugees , ” it said . A U.S. citizen since 1996 , he became a founding member of the Afghan Doctors Society , Medical Education and Training for Afghan Women in Pakistan , and the Afghans Health and Social Assistance Organization . He worked to elect President Ashraf Ghani in 2014 .

The United Nations estimated Friday that 40,000 people had already been displaced by fighting in Aleppo . It fears for another 300,000 civilians in the city 's rebel - held east . JUST WATCHED Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee 02:14 " Now 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo , " Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday in London . " My mind is not now in London , but in our border -- how to relocate these new people coming from Syria ?

But by October that year , there were reports Miss Kesinovic wanted to flee having been sickened by the terror group 's murders . The two Viennese girls , Samra Kesinovic ( left ) , 17 , and 15-year - old Sabina Selimovic ( right ) , whose parents are Bosnian refugees , disappeared in April 2014 after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria She was killed by ISIS as she tried to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue their stronghold of Raqqa . Prior to her death , she was forced to be a sex slave for the terror group , according to a Tunisian former extremist who lived with the two girls in the terror group 's de facto capital . The Tunisian woman said the two Austrian teenagers lived together in the same house and were viewed as a ' sexual present for new fighters ' .

He then left the corpse on the grave of his own son . It was a bad week in Lebanon . The government staged the usual military parades to mark Liberation Day when guerrilla fighters finally persuaded the Israeli army to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue across the border after 22 years of occupation in 2000 . Tanks and armoured vehicles drove through the streets of Beirut amid public assurances ( and private fears ) of inter - communal violence amid the generals . In pictures : Syria conflict

She was a cheerleader in the overthrow of friendly governments , such as Egypt , along with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi , who had previously given up his nuclear weapons program , promising an Arab Spring in Libya . Now ISIS - style militants are fighting in the country and wreaking havoc . In Syria , hundreds of thousands of civilians have died and millions have been forced to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue as refugees . Her negligence disqualifies her from being commander - in - chief . She did not see the growing threat of radical Islam , but believed in an “ Arab Spring . ”

That may encourage Thailand , controlled by a military regime , to cooperate when China seeks out dissidents living in tropical exile . Thailand ’s foreign minister , himself an army general , even gushed late last year that he would “ fall in love ” with his Chinese counterpart if only he were female . The hard - learned lesson for Chinese dissidents : If you plan to flee , try to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue farther than China ’s backyard . Prominent classified intelligence leakers sought by America — namely Julian Assange and Edward Snowden — have sought refuge with the help of Ecuador and Russia , among a small number of nations willing to defy the world ’s leading superpower . Likewise , as China ascends , it too is expanding the pool of countries willing to help capture dissidents on the lam .

The video lasts nine minutes and ends with a masked man addressing President Vladimir Putin and urging Daesh supporters to attack Russia . © REUTERS/ Ahmed Saad Daesh Commanders Fleeing Mosul Amid Iraqi Army 's Liberation Campaign Daesh terrorist group , outlawed in the United States , Russia and numerous other countries throughout the world , has seized vast areas in Iraq and Syria , forcing thousands of people to flee movement.transportperson.evacuationrescue their homes . The radical Sunni group has become notorious for its human rights atrocities , such as public beheadings of foreign journalists . Daesh and its affiliates have claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks carried out in various parts of the world , including the July 14 Nice attack and the the March 22 Brussels attacks .