Today's Top Stories
- At least 18 detainees died under torture in regime prisons today.
- Rebel fighters attacked military barracks on Mount Qasioun in Damascus; seized control of a border post with Iraq.
- Friends of Syria’s Group pledged more political and material help to the Syrian opposition.
Today's Top Videos
- Damascus: Rebels fire mortar shells on army barracks in Mount Qasioun and capture an armored vehicle in Daraya, P2
- Damascus Suburb: Scud-type missile fired from the base of the army’s 155thregiment in Quatifa towards the north
- Marjeh, Aleppo: The aftermath of regime shelling that targeted a bakery, P2
Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 125
- Opposition Death Toll: 94 including 7 children, 7 women and 25 rebel fighters (Aleppo: 40, Damascus and Suburbs: 31, Qunaitra: 7, Hama: 5, Daraa: 5, Idlib: 3, Homs: 2, Deir Azzour: 1)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +31
- Number of areas shelled: +268
- Number of People Wounded: +40
- Number of People Detained: +18
- FSA Key Operations:
- Captured the Hasaka suburb of Yaroubia and its border post with Iraq.
- Shelled military barracks in Mount Qasioun in Damascus.
- Destroyed 2 military tanks and 3 armored vehicles.
Summary of EventsActivists said that at least 18 detainees were killed under torture today, 12 of whom died in the notorious security branch of Palestine in Damascus, thus bringing the total estimated number of detainees killed under torture to 1544 since the beginning of the uprising two years ago.
This came as regime forces continued their attacks on opposition-held areas across the country, shelling more than 268 locations, seven of which were pounded with fighter jets as three Scud-type missiles were fired towards the north from the bases of the army’s 155
th regime and the 578
th battalion in the suburb of Damascus.
Aleppo has seen another deadly day as more than six people, including two children were killed while dozens more wounded when a shell hit a bakery in the neighborhood of Marjeh, while at least eight others, including five children, died when a warplane dropped a barrel bomb on a residential area in the Aleppo suburb of Deir Jammal.
Regime shelling also left at least 17 people dead and many others wounded in the neighborhoods of Jobar and Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus as well as in its provincial towns of Zamalka, Zabadani, Irbin, Douma, Moadamiyat al-Sham and Hazeh.
Today’s death toll reached more than 125. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 94 people, including seven children, seven women, 25 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 31 soldiers and militiamen.
The rebels fire a barrage of mortar shells at the military barracks in the
towering Mount Qasioun in Damascus, where artillery batteries and rocket launchers pound the rebel-held neighborhoods and towns throughout the capital, where
heavy battles between the rebels and regime forces also continued.
In the north-eastern province of Hasaka near the border with Iraq, the rebels seized control of the town of Yaroubiya and its border post with Iraq after forcing the regime forces to flee into Iraq.
In Aleppo, heavy fighting continued inside and around the
police academy in the western suburb of Khan Asal for the fourth day in a raw. The rebels used military tanks and mortar shells while attacking the Artillery Academy in the neighborhood of Zahraa as well as the Military Academy in the neighborhood of Hamadaniya. Heavy fighting also broke out in the neighborhoods of Bustan Basha, Ashrafi, Sabeil and the Sabaa Bahrat district.
The rebels ambushed a military reinforcement convoy,
destroying a military tank and an armored vehicle in the Idlib suburb of Heish while heading to the military bases of Hamdiya and Wady al-Dayf in the suburb of Ma’arrat al-Numan, where battles have been ongoing for several months. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued in the central
Daraa al-Balad district of Daraa city and on several other fronts in
Deir Azzour, Homs and
Hama.
Western and Arab governments, after a meeting in Rome of the Friends of Syria group, have pledged to boost diplomatic and material support for the Syrian National Coalition and called for an immediate halt to arms supplies to the Assad government. The European Union pledged to provide non-lethal aid such as armored vehicles and other equipment including training aimed at providing protection to the civilians.
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