Cher has joined #SaveKessab campaign launched by Armenians all over the world to support Armenian-populated city in Syria.

“Please check out what's going on in Kessab,Syria. Innocent Christians and Armenians being killed by turks #SaveKessab”, she retweeted.

In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria’s Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had launched the attack from Turkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. A group of Armenia parliament members recently visited Syria to assess the situation in the region