Today's Top Stories
- Rebel fighters seized control of the town of Tabaqa and the Baath Dam near Raqa city.
- Mass exodus from the Aleppo suburb of Sfeera as fighting intensifies.
- Regime forces committed another massacre in Deir Azzour city.
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Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 142
- Opposition Death Toll: 101 including 11 children, 6 women and 27 rebel fighters (Aleppo: 26, Damascus and Suburbs: 25, Deir Azzour: 24, Daraa: 12, Homs: 8, Idlib: 4, Hama: 1, Raqa: 1)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +41
- Number of areas shelled:
- Number of People Wounded: +60
- Number of People Detained: +9
- FSA Key Operations:
- Seized control of the Raqa suburb of Tabaqa.
- Seized control of a checkpoint on the Mutahliq Janoubi Road east of Damascus.
- Shelled Damascus Airport.
- Destroyed a number of military vehicles in Aleppo, Idlib and Daraa.
Summary of EventsFighting between rebels and regime forces intensified throughout the country on a day where the rebels gained more victories and regime forces committed more massacres against unarmed civilians.
The rebels seized control of the town of Tabaqa, 55km west of Raqa city, on the Euphrates. This came following a series of victories where the rebels stormed the
Air Force Intelligence compound and the premises of the
municipality,
military police, military housing and conscription. They also retook the
Baath Dam, 22km west of Raqa city.
Heavy fighting broke out in the southern neighborhoods of Yarmouk Refugee Camp, Qadam and Asali and in the eastern districts of Qaboun and Jobar where the rebels seized control of a military checkpoint near the
Adnan Mosque on the Mutahaliq Janoubi road near the town of Zamalka. Rebels also fired mortar shells and missiles into
Damascus Airport and stormed a military checkpoint near the Chemistry Brigade in the town of Adra.
The rebels destroyed a
military tank and two Zil military vehicles as they thwarted the regime’s attempt to enter the town of Sfeera in the eastern suburb of Aleppo. The town of Sfeera and the surrounding villages saw a mass exodus amid fears of more atrocities by regime forces pressing in on the area.
The rebels bombed a building inside the Niran Battalion near the 133
rd Brigade in the suburb of
Deir Azzour and stormed the northern part of the
Karaj military checkpoint in the Daraa suburb of Herak, detaining a number of regime soldiers and capturing big quantity of ammunitions. They also destroyed a military tank and killed 20 soldiers during clashes near the
Hama suburb of Hamamiyat.
Clashes also broke out in Aleppo and its
suburbs, Homs and
Idlib as the rebels attacked several army positions.
Today’s death toll reached more than 142. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 101 people, including 11 children, six women and 27 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 41 soldiers and militiamen.
Regime forces continued their attacks on residential areas within the rebels-held towns in Syria, using allo sorts of heavy weaponry including cluster, phosphorous, thermboaric and explosive bombs, causing extensive damage and forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes.
In Deir Azzour, at least 20 charred bodies were discovered in a public park near the premises of Euphrates News Paper in the neighborhood of Jubeila.
Some 25 people were killed in Damascus and it suburbs, the majority of whom died due to the indiscriminate aerial and artillery shelling in the neighborhood of Jobar and the provincial town of Douma. Regime forces fired artillery shells on the town of Nabek, targeting a sit-in staged by peaceful protesters and killing a child and a man while leaving at least ten others wounded.
Pro-regime militiamen burnt down the house of the Syrian National Coalition’s head Moath al-Khatib in Damascus. This came as he offered talks with the regime in the opposition-held areas in the north of the country.
At least 26 people, including seven children and two women, were killed in Aleppo due to the indiscriminate shelling in the neighborhoods of Myasar and Masaken Hanano. Meanwhile, at least 12 people died in Daraa due to the heavy fighting and clashes that took place in the neighborhoods of al-Sad and Daraa al-Balad as well as in its provincial towns of Bosra al-Sham and Naima.
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