SYRIA-ALEPPO-ISRAEL-AIRSTRIKES

SYRIA-ALEPPO-ISRAEL-AIRSTRIKES

(240329) -- DAMASCUS, March 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This screenshot captured from a video shows the scene of Israeli airstrikes that hit Syria's northern city of Aleppo on March 29, 2024. The death toll from Israeli airstrikes that hit Syria's northern city of Aleppo has risen to 42, a war monitor reported on Friday, updating the previous report of 36 fatalities. The airstrikes targeted a Hezbollah warehouse in the Jibrin area near Aleppo International Airport before dawn Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Xinhua)

SYRIA-ALEPPO-ISRAEL-AIRSTRIKES

SYRIA-ALEPPO-ISRAEL-AIRSTRIKES

(240329) -- DAMASCUS, March 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This screenshot captured from a video shows the scene of Israeli airstrikes that hit Syria's northern city of Aleppo on March 29, 2024. The death toll from Israeli airstrikes that hit Syria's northern city of Aleppo has risen to 42, a war monitor reported on Friday, updating the previous report of 36 fatalities. The airstrikes targeted a Hezbollah warehouse in the Jibrin area near Aleppo International Airport before dawn Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Xinhua)

Israeli airstrikes kill 36 military personnel in Syria's Aleppo

STORY: Israeli airstrikes kill 36 military personnel in Syria's Aleppo SHOOTING TIME: March 29, 2024 DATELINE: March 29, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the explosions at the targeted site STORYLINE: Thirty-six Syrian military personnel were killed in multiple Israeli airstrikes that targeted military bases in Syria's northern city of Aleppo before dawn Friday, a war monitor reported. The strikes hit a Hezbollah warehouse in the Jibrin area near Aleppo International Airport, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based watchdog group said the attacks, which reverberated across the northern Aleppo countryside for about three hours, resulted in the most deaths of Syrian military personnel due to Israeli airstrikes. Defense factories in the Safira area were also targeted, the watchdog added. A statement from the Syrian Defense Ministry said that around 1:45 a.m. local time on Friday (2245 GMT Thursday), the Israeli

New leaders elected for Nigerian parliament

STORY: New leaders elected for Nigerian parliament DATELINE: June 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of members of Nigeria's legislature 2. various of Godswill Akpabio 3. various of senate members on the parliament floor STORYLINE: Godswill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas, both from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, on Tuesday, emerged as president of the Nigerian Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, in separate elections for key positions for the parliament in Africa's most populous country. Akpabio, a former minority leader of the Senate, polled 63 votes to beat his rival and party man Abdulaziz Yari, who scored 46 votes in the election for the 109-member Senate leadership. Jibrin Barau, a senator representing the northern state of Kano, was elected unopposed as the deputy Senate president. Abbas, representing the northwestern state of Kaduna, emerged as the leader of the 360-member House of Representatives, the low