Kl:12,43 16|10|2012 Dengê kurd
Today's Top
Stories
- Hezbollah is transferring rocket launchers and heavy weaponry from southern Lebanon to the east along the border with Syria.
- The rebel Free Syrian Army said it downed a fighter jet and two helicopter gunships.
- Regime forces kidnapped more than 42 civilians in the suburbs of Damascus.
- Aleppo Suburbs: The remnants of the cluster bombs used by regime forces against civilian areas, P2
- Aleppo: Rebel fighters shoot down a fighter jet and detain its pilot, P2, P3
- Harasta, Damascus Suburb: Lifeless bodies of the fallen heroes who died due to the indiscriminate shelling
- Civilians Death Toll: 103 including 6 women and 6 children (Damascus and Suburbs: 32, Aleppo: 28, Deir Azzour: 13, Daraa: 10, Idlib: 9, Homs: 4, Hama: 4, Latakia: 2, Raqa: 2)
- Regime Soldiers Death Toll: 46 (Aleppo: 21, Idlib: 10, Deir Azzour: 5, Qunaitera: 4, Homs: 2)
- Free Syrian Army key operations:
- Shot down a fighter jet and a helicopter gunship in Aleppo city.
- Shot down a helicopter gunship in the Deir Azzour suburb of Boukamal.
Summary of
Events
Activists said that the Lebanese Hezbollah is
transferring rocket launchers and heavy weaponry from the south of Lebanon along
the border with Israel, to the east along the border with the Syrian province of
Homs, where sources say they intend to support Assad’s forces after failing to
enter any of the rebels’ strongholds.
The rebel Free Syrian Army said that its fighting units downed
a fighter jet and a helicopter gunship in the city of Aleppo as well as a
helicopter gunship near the Hamadan military airport in the Deir Azzour suburb
of Boukamal.
At least 46 army soldiers and 20 rebel fighters were killed
as they fought on several fronts in Aleppo, Deir Azzour, Hasaka, Idlib,
Damascus, Daraa and Quanitera. The rebels also managed to destroy and capture a
number of military tanks and armoured vehicles.
On the other hand,
activists said that regime forces kidnapped more than 42 civilians as they were
on their way back home in the Damascus suburb of Moadamiya. They were taken to
unknown destination.
Regime forces killed at least 35 civilians in
Damascus and its suburbs, including 12 civilians in the provincial town of Douma
as they invaded it amid fierce and indiscriminate shelling by tanks, heavy
artillery, mortar shells and rocket launchers. Similar attacks left at least
seven people dead in the provincial town of Harasta and four more in the town of
Daraya. A number of people were also killed in the towns of Kanaker, Qatana,
Haran Awamid and Zamalka.
They also killed 21 civilians as they shelled
the neighbourhoods of Shaar, Maadi and Karm Jabal in the city of Aleppo as well
as its provincial towns of Menbej, Tal Refaat, Hraytan, al-Bab, Nerab and
Abzimo. They also killed 12 civilians as they unleashed fierce aerial attacks on
the neighbourhoods of Jbaila, Mowathafin, Arfi, Hamidiya and Ardi in the city of
Deir Azzour as well as in the provincial towns of Boukamal, Shahil, Mayadin and
Baqros. Similarly, eight people were killed and dozens more were injured when a
fighter jet shelled a bakery in the village of Jibala in the sbuburb of
Idlib.
Regime forces pounded the East Ghouta district of Damascus
province using heavy artillery, mortar shells, military tanks and air force,
leaving dozens of people injured and dozens of houses destroyed. They resumed
their massive military operations amid suffocating siege and indiscriminate
attacks on residential areas in Idlib, Homs, Daraa, Hama, Latakia and Raqa,
leaving scores of civilians dead and many more wounded while destroying dozens
of houses, thus prompting a mass exodus.