Today's Top Stories
- Syrians demand prosecution of Assad’s uncle in relation to the 1982 Hama massacre.
- Rebel fighters shot down two warplanes and gained more victories on the ground.
- Regime forces committed four massacres in Damascus and Aleppo.
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Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 163
- Opposition Death Toll: 103 including 11 children, 8 women and 20 rebel fighters (Damascus and Suburbs: 54, Aleppo: 19, Idlib: 8, Deir Azzour: 7, Idlib: 7, Homs: 6, Hama: 5, Daraa: 6, Hasaka: 2)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +40
- Number of areas shelled: +403
- Number of People Wounded: +70
- Number of People Detained: +10
- FSA Key Operations:
- Shot down a fighter jet and a helicopter gunship in the suburb of Idlib.
- Destroyed three military tanks in the suburbs of Damascus.
- Seized control of the Baath Dam in Raqa.
- Stormed a governmental building in the neighborhood of Alhwaika in Deir Azzour city.
- Stormed several military bases in the Damascus suburb of Adra.
- Stormed several military checkpoints in the Daraa suburb of Bosr al-Harir.
- Attacked several military checkpoints in Hama city.
Summary of EventsSyrians commemorated the Hama massacre which occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian army led by Assad the father, Hafez al-Assad and his brother Rifaat al-Assad, conducted a scorched earth operation against the city and killed more than 40,000 people and displaced 100,000 others. Strikes swept through the cities of Hama and Raqa in commemoration of the massacre. Hama activists raised the Syrian revolution flags all over the city, scribbled anti-regime graffiti and splashed many walls and streets with red paint to symbolize the massacre.
Anti-regime activists launched a social media campaign aimed at raising awareness of Syria’s most horrific massacre in recent history by disseminating a
post that’s translated into nine languages. They also demanded the prosecution of Assad’s uncle,
Rifaat al-Assad, who lives in Paris, for being responsible for the military operation back then.
As shops closed down in commemoration of the massacre, rebel fighters launched a series of attacks on regime military checkpoints in the neighborhoods of
Hader, Tariq Halab and Arbaeen in Hama city, killing and injuring many regime soldiers. There have been clashes in the suburbs of Hama as well where the rebels repelled the regime’s ground assault on the town of
Karnaz and shelled military posts in the village of
Brideige.
Rebel fighters
shot down a fighter jet and a helicopter gunship as they continued their attack on the Abu Thohour airbase near Idlib city. Rebels led by fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra stormed a governmental building known as the “Insurances” in the neighborhood of Alhawika in Deir Azzour city and imposed a suffocating siege on the highly-secured al-Baath branch in the same neighborhood. They also continued to pound the base of the 113
th air defense brigade using
military tanks.
Fighters from al-Nusra Front also led a major military operation in the northern province of Raqa where they captured the strategic Baath Dam, 22km north of Raqa city. Some 20 soldiers defected to the side of the rebels who captured an armored vehicle in addition to a big quantity of munitions.
In Damascus, the rebels seized control of
al-Qadam police station and its surrounding areas. They also continued to repel the regime’s attack on Daraya and Moadamiyat al-Sham where they destroyed two
military tanks. Heavy fighting broke out for the first time in the town of Adra, 25km north east of Damascus, where the ran over several military bases including the 39
th brigade.
In Daraa, the rebels forced Assad\s army out of
Boser al-Harir after taking over a number of military checkpoints in the town’s center. Rebels discovered
ammunition boxeslabeled in Persian language the thing which proves Iran’s continued support to the Assad regiime.
Regime forces continued their attacks on residential areas within the rebels-held towns in Syria, shelling as many as 286 locations across the country, 18 of which were pounded with warplanes using cluster, phosphorous, thermboaric and explosive bombs, therefore, causing extensive material damages and leaving dozens of people dead and wounded.
Today’s death toll reached more than 163. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 103 people, including 11 children, eight women and 20 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 60 soldiers and militiamen.
Regime forces committed tow massacres in Damascus and its suburbs today. Their military tanks fired indiscriminately on civilian houses in the neighborhood of Jobar, east of Damascus, leaving at least six people dead. Another massacre was committed in the disaster-stricken town of Shab’a, when helicopter gunships dropped barrel bombs on residential houses, leaving at least nine people dead, including six children and one woman in addition to leaving dozens others wounded.
Two more massacres were committed in the suburbs of Aleppo as well. Regime forces bombarded the towns of Deir Hafer and Sfeera with dozens of barrel bombs, leaving at least nine people dead in Deir Hafer and five more in Sfeera.
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