Kl:11,08 19|10|2012 Dengê kurd
Today's Top
Stories
- The joint command for military and revolutionary councils said it was ready for a conditional ceasefire as regime forces killed more than 224 people including 32 children.
- A Colonel and more than 32 army soldiers defected to the rebels’ side in Deir Azzour and Idlib.
- House rental fees have surged by 50% in the relatively calm areas in Damascus and its suburbs.
Today's Top Videos
- Ma’rrat Noman, Idlib: Airstrike causes mass destruction and leaves dozens of people dead and many more wounded, P2, P3, P4
- Saqba, Damascus Suburb: Airstrike targets schools and residential buildings leaving dozens of people dead and many more wounded, P2, P3, P4
- Joint command for military and revolutionary councils accepts international calls for a ceasefire during the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
- Civilians Death Toll: 224 including 32 children and 14 women (Damascus and Suburbs: 63, Idlib: 56, Aleppo: 41, Homs: 24, Deir Azzour: 12, Daraa: 10, Qunaitera: 8, Hama; 7, Raqa: 3)
- Regime Soldiers Death Toll: 61 (Idlib: 19, Aleppo: 12, Damascus and Suburbs: 7, Daraa: 6, Homs: 5, Deir Azzour: 2)
- Free Syrian Army key operations:
- Destroyed three military tanks and a number of armored vehicles in the Daraa suburb of Lajat.
- Destroyed a military tank and a number of armored vehicles in the Aleppo suburb of Khan Asal.
- Destroyed three military tanks in the Idlib suburb of Absida.
- Stormed a military checkpoint in the neighborhood of Barqoum in Aleppo city.
- Destroyed a number of armored vehicles as they repelled a ground assault on the neighborhood of Jbaila in Deir Azzour.
- Seized control of al-Saygh military checkpoint in the Homs suburb of Qusayr after destroying a military tank and a number of armored vehicles.
Summary of
Events
The joint command for military and revolutionary
councils in Syria announced it was ready for a conditional ceasefire after
international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi had called for a truce in Syria during
the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday starting on October 26. Meanwhile, the
Syrian government expressed scepticism and continued to pound residential areas
killing at least 224 people including 32 children and 14 women, mostly fell in
Damascus and its suburbs, Idlib and Aleppo.
Syrian fighter jets
bombarded the rebels’ held town of Ma’arrat Noman in the province of Idlib. The
strike destroyed two residential buildings and a mosque where many women and
children were taking refuge and resulting in the death of more than 33 people,
some of them were impossible to identify after been torn to pieces. Another
strike later on in the evening on the same town left seven more people dead,
thus bringing the death toll to more than 44 people including 12 children and
five women. Many more people were also killed as fighter jets continued to
bombard the Idlib suburbs of Saqlin, Ma’arrat Horma and Kafrouma, while the
heavy artillery pounded the towns of Isqat, Qaminas and Saraqeb.
The
suburbs of Damascus were subjected to one of the sternest military offensive
today, with more than 72 people dead including five women and one child. Fighter
jets bombarded several towns and villages, while regime troops backed by
military tanks carried out looting, arson and summary executions in the village
of Shifouniya killing at least 11 people. They slaughtered more than 11 people
in the town of Artouz using knives and massacred others in the towns of
Moadamiya, Rihan and Bait Sahem. Meanwhile, at least 28 people were killed and
dozens more were injured as the regime’s fighter jets bombarded the towns of
Saqba and Hamouriya. At least nine unidentified bodies were also discovered in
the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the south of Damascus.
At
least 15 rebel fighters were killed as fighting continued in Aleppo and its
surrounding provincial towns. Activists said that six unidentified bodies
believed to have been executed by regime forces were discovered in an abandoned
building in the neighborhood of Jamiyat Zahraa.
Regime forces also
resumed their massive military operations amid suffocating siege and
indiscriminate attacks on residential areas in Homs, Daraa, Hama, Latakia, Raqa
and Qunaitera leaving scores of people dead and many more wounded while
destroying dozens of houses, thus prompting a mass exodus.
Abdullah Bin
Mobarak battalion claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb carried out using
a booby-trapped motorcycle targeting a security compound near the ministry of
interior in the neighbourhood of Kafarsouseh in Damascus. No casualties were
reported.
Heavy battles continued between rebel fighters and regime
forces throughout the country, killing at least 61 army soldiers and more than
36 rebel fighters.
A Colonel along with seven soldiers defected to the
rebels’ side in Deir Azzour city. Similarly, 25 soldiers joined the rebels as
they continued to besiege the Wady Adayf military base in Ma’arrat Noman and the
air defence base in Dowayla Mountain in suburbs of Idlib.
Economically,
house rental fees have surged by 50% in the relatively calm areas in Damascus
and its suburbs; some flats are being rented for as high as $1460 per month and this is due to the huge influx of displaced
people pouring in from different hot areas in Damascus and other provinces.