Damascus - Noura Khawam
Violent clashes have erupted between the governmental troops and opposition factions in the front of Qabon and Barza Gardens amid new attempts from the governmental troops to achieve advance in the area. Meanwhile the opposition factions announced that they managed to counter an attempt from the governmental troops to advance in the district. A number of governmental troops have been injured and killed during the clashes.
In Damascus, the governmental fighter jets launched air raids against the towns of Arbeen, Harasta, and Duma. The governmental attacks led to the killing of one citizen and a large number of injuries among the civilians. They also launched artillery attack against the towns of Jesreen, Mohamedeya and Beit Nayem.
In Aleppo, the air force launched air raids on the city of Adnan and its outskirts in the northern countryside, resulting in injuries. The neighborhoods of Hurriyetan, Asia region and the town of Kfarhamra exposed to artillery shelling by regime forces, without reports of any injuries. In the western countryside, warplanes launched a raid on the city of Dar Azza, leaving many civilians injured, including children, in the town of Qabtan al-Jabal after a very violent missile attack. The town of Sheikh Aqeel was subjected to similar shelling.
The air force also launched air raids on the town of Maskana in the eastern countryside targeted the cultural center, the municipality building and the vicinity of the Women's Arts Academy without giving details of any injuries.
Syrian Ministry of Defense announced, on Tuesday, that the army forces repulsed an attack by al-Nusra Front on military checkpoints in Hayy al-Manshiyah. The ministry released a statement saying that Syrian Army forces managed to foil an attack launched by al-Nusra Front on army checkpoints in Hayy al-Manshiyah, west of Daraa.
The security forces also killed dozens of terrorists, and destroyed three armed vehicles in the neighborhoods of Karak, Arbaeen, al-Saad road, al-Abbasiyah, Haret al-Badw, Haret al-Bajaja and Haret al-Hamadeen, the statement added.
In Idlib, the Russian warplanes targeted the area of Jabal al-Duwailah west of the city of Kuftakharim in the midnight, resulting in the martyrdom of 14 people, and the fall of many of the wounded. The civil defense teams went to the place and wounded the wounded and recovered the martyrs from the rubble.
The cities and towns of Maara al-Nu'man, Khan Shaykhun, Kafr Nabal, Tirmala, Naqir, Mar'and, Ksafra, Basnul, Ma'arand, Kermara and Ma'arbalit were heavily bombed by Russian warplanes using cluster bombs, while the Baddama-Hambushiya road in the western countryside and the outskirts of the southern town of Svohan were shelled. He was wounded by an explosive device on the road to the town of Ma'ra Misrin.
In the province of Daraa, the air force launched air raids on the districts of Daraa al-Balad and the city of Busra al-Sham, while the towns of Giza and Ayadoudeh and the area between the city of Hara and the towns of Zumrin and Aqraba came under intermittent artillery shelling, while the fighters of the opposition factions combed the strongholds of the army of Khaled bin Walid, belonging to IS organization, on the outskirts of the town of Adwan in the western countryside.
In Deir Ezzor, activists said that a woman from the Hrabash district died of undernourishment, where government-controlled neighborhoods live under siege by IS. There were conflicting reports that the regime forces announced that the International Coalition planes had targeted an arms depot belonging to IS in Hatla village, containing chemicals that killed hundreds of people, including civilians.
In al-Raqqa, the Syrian Democratic Forces managed to control the villages of al-Zahira, Baas, al-Kalata, and Al Abbara, north of Raqqa, after heavy fighting against militant groups. Civilians were killed and wounded when they were targeted by the International Alliance aircraft during a funeral in a Swedeya Al Kabeera village.