Today's Top Stories
- Regime airstrike killed 50 people near Damascus, rebel fighters shot it down immediately.
- Tensions rise between Al-Nusra Front and Hezbollah.
- Rebel fighters continued to strike regime positions in the heart of Damascus and gained new grounds across the country.
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Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 214
- Opposition Death Toll: 161 including 28 children, 10 women and 24 rebel fighters (Damascus and Suburbs: 97, Aleppo: 18, Daraa: 16, Homs: 12, Idlib: 11, Deir Azzour: 2, Raqa: 2, Hasaka: 1, Qunaitra: 1, Hama: 1)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +53
- Number of areas shelled: +342
- Number of People Wounded: +120
- Number of People Detained: +8
- FSA Key Operations:
- Shot down a fighter jet in Damascus suburb.
- Killed three militants from Hezbollah near the Lebanese border.
- Fired mortar shells at the army’s headquarters in Damascus.
- Stormed several checkpoints in Daraa city and its suburbs.
- Stormed several checkpoints and towns in the suburb of Hasaka.
- Stormed the Niran battalion near the 133rd brigade in Deir Azzour.
- Stormed the Kobar checkpoint in the suburb of Raqa.
- Seized control of the Taym Oil Field in Deir Azzour.
Summary of EventsRebel fighters
shot down a fighter jet over the Damascus suburb of Hammouriya shortly after an air strike killed and injured dozens of people.
The downed fighter jet dropped thermobaric bombs on the densely-populated town of Hammouriya, leaving at least 51 people dead and 60 more injured. Regime indiscriminate shelling also left dozens of people dead and wounded in the neighborhoods of Barzeh and Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus as well as in its provincial town of Zabdani.
Today’s death toll reached more than 214. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 161 people, including 28 children, ten women and 24 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 53 soldiers and militiamen.
Regime forces bombarded more than 342 locations across the country, 23 of which were pounded with warplanes which used cluster, phosphorous, thermboaric and explosive bombs, while five others were hit by Scud-type missiles and four more were shelled with surface-to-surface missiles. Regime forces also used heavy artillery, mortar shells and rocket launchers.
Regime shelling targeted a refugee camp near the Aleppo suburb of Sfeera and residential areas in the neighborhoods of Karm Maysar and Marjeh in Aleppo, thus leaving at least 11 people dead and many others wounded. Regime shelling also left eight people dead in the Daraa suburb of Jasem and ten more in the Idlib suburbs of Ariha, Ma’arrat al-Numan and Ablin. Some three people were also killed and dozens more were injured due to the intense shelling in the Homs suburbs of Rastan, Houla and Qusayr.
Media sources said that Hezbollah announced the mobilization of its fighting units in eight Lebanese villages near the border with Syria. A decision was made following the death of three of its members after been ambushed by al-Nusra fighters near the village of Zeita in the south of Lebanon.
The military leadership of Al-Nusra Front issued a statement saying that some of its finest leaders and fighters have joined the rebel Free Syrian Army in the Homs suburb of Qusayr near the border with Lebanon in order to help them repel the repeated attacks by Hezbollah fighters on the Syrian villages.
Activists published a video on Youtube purportedly showing a
military convoy of dozens of vehicles carrying Iraqi and Iranian Shiite fighters crossing into Syria from Iraq in order to support the embattled regime forces in the town of Shadadi in the eastern province of Hasaka which fell to the rebels recently. Today, the rebels gained new grounds in the same town as they stormed the base of the armys’ 546
th battalion. They also seized control of the Jazaa district and the village of Tal Alo near the town of Qamishly.
In Raqa, the rebels stormed the
Kobar checkpoint known as the “Nuclear checkpoint”, following a heavy battle that resulted in the death of 30 regime soldiers and the imprisonment of three high-ranking officers. Al-Nusra Front fighters captured the Abyad Oil Field in the suburb of Raqa and then handed it over to the Free Syrian Army.
In Damascus, the rebels continued to bombard sensitive and strategic government positions in the heart of the capital. Today they fired a number of mortar shells at the premises of
the Syrian Army Headquarters and its surroundings. They also attacked the premises of the
Electricity Authority near the town of Zamalka in the Mutahaliq Janoubi road, leaving a number of security forces dead and wounded.
The rebels
stormed several checkpoints in the neighborhood of Abasiya in Daraa city and launched a major offensive on regime positions in its provincial town of Jasem, storming a school and a
hospital used by the military and leaving many troops dead and wounded.
The rebels also seized control of the
Taym Oil Field in the suburb of Deir Azzour. Meanwhile, heavy clashes continued in the Damascus suburbs of Daraya, Zamalka and
East Ghouta district, as well as in the
neighborhood of Waer in Homs city and in several areas across
Aleppo and its suburbs,
Deir Azzour,
Idlib and
Hama
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