Today's Top Stories
- Rebels captured fighter jets and seized control of a key army base near Aleppo Airport.
- More than 200 Syrians killed today, death toll is likely approaching 70,000 according to the UN.
- Widespread blackouts caused economic losses of around $2.2 billion for Syria.
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Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 201
- Opposition Death Toll: 123 including 8 children, 5 women and 67 rebel fighters (Damascus and Suburbs: 30, Aleppo: 30, Homs: 17, Deir Azzour: 12, Raqa: 11, Hama: 7, Hasaka: 2, Idlib: 1)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +78
- Number of areas shelled: +361
- Number of People Wounded: +60
- Number of People Detained: +20
- FSA Key Operations:
- Stormed the base of the army’s 80th Brigade in the suburb of Aleppo.
- Captured dozens of fighter jets in the Jarah airbase in Aleppo suburb.
- Shot down a helicopter gunship in the Damascus suburb of Kalamoon.
- Destroyed three military tanks and several military vehicles.
Summary of EventsAfter taking over the Jarah airbase yesterday in the suburb of Aleppo, the rebels captured more than
30 fighter jets some of which are operational, including MiG fighter jets. The rebels now set theisr sight on Aleppo International Airport after storming the nearby base of the army’s
80th Brigade and the Manara military checkpoint, bringing them just few hundred meters away from Syria’s second airport which they bombarded with
military tanks.
The rebels also destroyed a number of helicopter gunships as they bombarded the
Nerab airbase with military tanks. Heavy fighting renewed in the vicinity of the Minnegh and Kuwaires airbases which came under heavy artillery and rocket shelling by the rebels.
In Damascus, heavy fighting continued along the Mutahaliq Janoubi road as the rebels repelled the regime’s attempt to retake the eastern district of Jobar near the strategic square of Abbasids. Fighting also continued in the southern neighborhoods of Qadam, Asali, Tadamon and Yarmouk.
The rebels shot down a helicopter gunship as clashes broke out near the Damascus-Homs international road in the district of Kalamoon. Meanwhile, some 40 soldiers from the Fourth Division and the Republican Guard Corps defected to the rebels’ side in the suburb of Damascus.
Rebel fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra and Liwa al-Qadisiya announced an all-out offensive to take over the city of Deir Azzour following a series of victories in its suburbs which entirely came under their control. Meanwhile, the rebels continued their attack on the air defense base of the army’s
113th Brigade where nine soldiers defected to their side.
In Daraa, the rebels stormed a checkpoint and a school in the suburb of Msefra. They also stormed a checkpoint in the suburb of
Jiza. In Homs, the rebels ambushed a Zil military truck carrying dozens of soldiers and killed them all. They also stormed a military checkpoint between the eastern Hama suburbs of Samar and Kokab and continued their attack on the
Shabiba Camp in the Idlib suburb of Nerab, destroying a military tank and leaving a number of regime soldiers dead and wounded.
Regime forces continued their attacks on residential areas within the rebels-held towns in Syria, shelling as many as 361 locations across the country, 23 of which were pounded with warplanes using cluster, phosphorous, thermboaric and explosive bombs and for the first time, they used Napalm bombs in Damascus, causing extensive material damages and forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes.
Today’s death toll reached more than 201. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 123 people, including eight children, five women and 67 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 78 soldiers and militiamen.
In Damascus, a fighter jet targeted a residential building in the Damascus suburb of Jesrin, leaving at least eight people dead and dozens more injured. Some five children were killed and many others were injured due to the indiscriminate shelling in the town of Bowayda. Meanwhile, a fighter jet bombarded the industrial zone in the northeastern district of Qabun, destroying a number of houses and causing extensive material damages.
In Aleppo, two more bodies were pulled out from the Queiq River in the neighborhood of Bustan Qaser while four unidentified bodies, with their hands bound, were discovered in the Jadida area. In Homs, an airstrike left at least seven rebel fighters dead in the town of Talbisa.
The death toll in Syria is likely approaching 70,000 with civilians paying the price for the UN Security Council's lack of action to end the nearly 2-year-old conflict, the UN human rights chief said today.
Widespread blackouts have caused economic losses of around $2.2 billion for Syria nearly two years into a spiraling conflict, electricity minister Imad Khamis has said. Electricity production has halved ever since the eruption of the revolution, as a result of fuel shortages and insecurity affecting oil and gas transportation.
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