Kl:11,55 01 |10|2012 Dengê kurd
Founder of
Shabiha militia die as anti-Assad protests breakout in his home
town
Today's Top
Stories
- Mass anti-Assad protests were reported in his home town in the Latakia suburb of Kerdaha as the founder of the Shabiha organization Mohammad al-Assad died.
- At least 30 bodies killed “execution style” were discovered in a basement in southern neighbourhood of Asaly in Damascus.
- At least eight Syrian intelligence agents were killed and several dozen people wounded in a car-bomb attack in the north-eastern town of Qamishli.
Today's
Top Videos
- Asaly, Damascus: Dozens of bodies discovered in the neighbourhood
- Douma, Damascus suburb: The heavy shelling leaves scores of people dead and many wounded, P2, P3
- Daraa: Rebel fighters provide protection to students as they return back home
Today's
Statistics
- Death Toll: 154 including 11 women, 9 children and 2 under torture (Damascus and Suburbs: 61, Aleppo: 27, Deir Azzour: 11, Idlib: 6, Homs: 4, Hama: 2, Daraa: 2, Hasaka: 1)
- Free Syrian Army key operations:
- Killed at least 41 army soldiers throughout the country.
- Arrested a number of pro-Assad militias in the Aleppo suburb of Atareb.
- Seized control of the villages of Ghasaniya and Haydariya in the suburbs of Homs
Summary of
Events
Mass anti-Assad protests were reported in his
home town in the Latakia suburb of Kerdaha as the founder of the Shabiha
organization Mohammad al-Assad known as “the Sheikh of the Mountain” was killed
during clashes with armed militias from al-Khayer clan.
At least 30
civilians killed “execution style” were discovered in a basement in southern
neighbourhood of Asaly in Damascus. Meanwhile, regime forces committed the
4th massacre in less than a week in the neighbourhood of Barzeh
claiming the lives of eight civilians who were discovered near the Tishrin
military hospital.
Regime forces stormed the Harasta national hospital
in the Damascus suburb of Harata and arrested all injured civilians following a
heavy shelling that also left more than 13 civilians dead.
At least ten
people were killed in the Damascus suburb of Douma and ten more died in the
provincial town of Deir Suleiman in the eastern Ghouta district due to the
fierce and indiscriminate shelling by regime forces.
Atavists said at
least eight Syrian intelligence agents were killed and several dozen people
wounded in a car-bomb attack in the north-eastern town of
Qamishli.
Several dozen people were also killed as regime forces resumed
shelling the Damascus suburbs of Zabadani, Saqba, Kafarbatna, Erbin, Asal
al-Ward, Hosh Arab, Mesraba, Mdeira and Hejeira Balad.
In Deir Azzour,
at least 41 civilians died, of which nine were killed in an airstrike by a MIG
fighter jet that targeted a four-story building in the neigbourhood of Hamidiya,
while eight family members were killed “execution style” in the neighbourhood of
Qosour. Several dozen people were also reported dead in several neighbourhoods
and towns as the fierce fighting and shelling continued in the provincial town
of Boukamal and Deir Azzour.
Fierce clashes continued for the
3rd consecutive day throughout the city of Aleppo as the regime’s
heavy artillery and fighter jets continued to pound the residential areas
killing dozens of people and wounding many more.
In the meantime, regime
forces resumed their fierce and indiscriminate shelling of densely populated
areas throughout the country, leaving scores of civilians dead and wounded while
destroying dozens of houses. They shelled several neighbourhoods in the city of
Homs as well as its provincial towns of Talkalakh, Qosayr and Rastan. They also
shelled several villages in the western suburbs of Hama as well as the Daraa
suburbs of Inkhel, Bosra, Ghariya Gharbiya, Um Mayathen and the Lajat
district.
They shelled the Idlib suburbs of Ma’arrat Noman, Sarmin,
Kafarnabel, Taftanaz, Has and Heish as well as the Raqa suburbs of Ain Eissa and
Tal Abyad in addition to the village of Bakas in the Latakia suburb of
Haffeh.