Today's Top Stories
- The northern city of Raqa was announced the first major city to fall to the opposition forces since the start of the uprising two years ago.
- Rebel fighters stormed parts of Minnegh airbase and scored advances in Damascus and its suburbs.
- Regime airstrike killed more 30 people in Raqa city.
Today's Top Videos
- Raqqa: Rebel fighters take over the city and capture high-ranking officials, P2
- Raqqa: Regime airstrike targets the city’s main square and leaves dozens of people dead and wounded, P2
- Latakia: Leaked video footage shows regime forces brutally torturing a detainee
Today's Statistics
- Total Death Toll: 244
- Opposition Death Toll: 149 including 13 children, 8 women and 42 rebel fighters (Damascus and Suburbs: 40, Raqa: 35, Aleppo: 25, Daraa: 12, Idlib: 10, Hama: 6, Latakia: 1, Deir Azzour: 1)
- Regime Soldiers & Militiamen Death Toll: +95
- Number of areas shelled: +370
- Number of People Wounded: +70
- Number of People Detained: +7
- FSA Key Operations:
- Seized control of Raqa city.
- Stormed parts of Minnegh airbase.
- Stormed a checkpoint in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani.
- Destroyed 2 military tanks and several military vehicles.
Summary of EventsRebel fighters seized control of the provincial
city of Raqa in the north of the country after overrunning all its security and
military positions and
detaining its
mayor and the head of branch of the ruler al-Baath party as well as the head of state security branch. The rebels destroyed the statue of former president Hafez al-Assad and tore down the largest picture of Bashar al-Assad in the city’s main square. Raqa is the first major city to be captured by the rebels since they took up arms against the Assad regime more than 18 months ago.
The rebels continued their attacks on the base of the army’s 17
th division and al-Tabaqa airbase, the latest regime bastions in the province of Raqa.
In Aleppo, the rebels
killed and detained dozens of troops as they carried out sweeps in the town of Khan Asal which recently fell to them. They also stormed parts of the
Minnegh airbase where they destroyed its control town and several military vehicles. They bombed the
Asan Bridge which is used by the regime to send military reinforcements from Aleppo to Aleppo’s international airport and the Nerab airbase.
In Damascus, the rebels stormed tow checkpoints in the
neighborhood of Tishrin and continued to close in on the strategic square of Abbasids near the eastern neighborhood of Jobar. They destroyed the Ayn Ramleh checkpoint just outside the rebel-held town of Zabadani and attacked another in the regime-held town of Kisweh. The rebels destroyed tow military tanks and left many regime soldiers dead and wounded during clashes with regime forces that erupted in the suburbs of
Daraya, Sbeneh,
Bibila,
Zamalka, Adra, Bait Sahem and several other towns in the East Ghouta district.
The rebels continued to repel a major offensive by regime forces backed by Hezbollah fighters on the old
city of Homs as heavy fighting also continued on several fronts in
Daraa,
Deir Azzour,
Hama,
Qunaitra, Idlib and Hasaka.
Unidentified armed men from Syria have carried out an ambush in western Iraq killing 50 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards, the Iraqi defense ministry said today. The Syrian soldiers fled into Iraq after losing the Yaroubiya border post to the rebels last week.
More than 24 people were killed today across the country. Regime forces and loyalist militiamen killed at least 149 people, including 12 children, eight women and 42 rebel fighters, whereas the rebels killed more than 95 soldiers and militiamen.
Regime forces continued their attacks on opposition-held areas across the country, shelling more than 395 locations, five of which were pounded with fighter jets while one more was hit by Scud-type missile.
Regime forces retaliated for losing the city of Raqa and carried an airstrike on its main square where people gathered to welcome the rebels leaving at least 30 people dead and dozens more wounded.
More than 30 people were killed in Damascus and its suburbs as a result of the indiscriminate shelling in the neighborhoods of Jobar, Dahadeel and Qaboun and in the provincial towns of Bibila, Irbin, Bait Sahem and Douma.
Regime shelling also left at least seven more people dead in the neighborhoods of Ferdous and Maghayer Shabiya in Aleppo and in its provincial town of Naqarin, six more in the neighborhoods of Khaldiya and Jab Jandali in Homs and in the village of Deir al-Foul in its suburb and two others in the Daraa suburb of Sheikh Meskeen.
The Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade Imad Aseel said that the Syrian government increased the price of gasoline by 10.00 SYP from 55.00 SYP to 65.00 SYP per liter.
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