{"id":16043,"date":"2015-01-10T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2015-01-10T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T11:12:20","slug":"armenian-cathedral-destroyed-in-aleppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=16043","title":{"rendered":"Armenian cathedral destroyed in Aleppo"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, militants from the Islamic Front\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s (Jabhat Al-Islamiyya) largest milita \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Harakat \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cAhrar Al-Sham\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d (Liberators of the Levant Movement) fired multiple mortar shells at the St. Rita Cathedral in the Al-Tillal District, resulting in the exterior destruction of this historical Armenian Catholic Church in the Aleppo Governorate.<\/p>\n

<\/strong> The St. Rita Cathedral has been targeted by Harakat \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cAhrar Al-Sham on numerous occasions; it holds no strategic advantage to these militants, due to the fact that civilians \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c specifically, Aleppo\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s large Armenian community \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c attend this church. Non-Armenian Catholic civilians occasionally utilize the Cathedral\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s wells because of the absence of water in some communities due to the obstruction of the water flow to the people of Aleppo, reports The Arab Source.<\/p>\n

According to a source in the area, no civilians were harmed as a result of this callous attack on the Cathedral; however, there were a number of hellfire cannons fired into the surrounding civilian neighborhoods by the militants of Harakat \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cAhrar Al-Sham.<\/p>\n

The attack on the St. Rita Cathedral in Al-Tillal comes 4 months after the destruction of the Armenian Memorial by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) in the Deir Ezzor Governorate. Syria\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Armenian community is one of the largest in the Middle East \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c the city of Aleppo was a safe haven for many Armenians attempting to flee the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks.<\/p>\n

French authorities say the two armed suspects in this week’s Charlie Hebdo attack have been killed and their hostage freed during a police raid northeast of Paris. A separate raid in the capital killed another gunman holding multiple hostages at a kosher supermarket in the capital, but police said four hostages died in that operation.<\/p>\n

Explosions and gunfire sounded as police moved in Friday afternoon, almost simultaneously, on the supermarket in Paris and on the industrial town of Dammartin-en-Goele, near Charles DeGaulle international airport. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, named as the principal suspects in Wednesday’s bloody attack on the satirical magazine in Paris, came out of hiding in a warehouse and began firing as police moved in. They were cut down in return gunfire from a large force of police on the scene.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, militants from the Islamic Front\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s (Jabhat Al-Islamiyya) largest milita \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Harakat \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cAhrar Al-Sham\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d (Liberators of the Levant Movement) fired multiple mortar shells at the St. Rita Cathedral in the Al-Tillal District, resulting in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}