Baladi News – Daily Report
In Aleppo, 14 civilians died, including two children, and dozens were wounded in war planes and helicopters airstrikes on Aleppo city and country sides. Three of the casualties resulted in Tariq al-Bab, three in al-Shaar, and four in an airstrike on a gas station in al-Saliheen that caused fires and dozens of injuries among civilians. The civil defense teams rushed to the area to rescue the wounded and extinguish the fires. Two civil defense personnel were killed in airstrikes in Jub al-Qubba while extricating corpses from under rubble.
The regime air forces also attacked the neighborhoods of al-Haidaria, Ba’edeen, al-Sukkari,al-Mashhad, al-Ansari, al-Saliheen, al-Amiriyya, al-Shaar, al-Firdous, al-Myassar, Jub al-Qubba, al-Qatirji, al-Kallasa, al-Jazmati, Masakin Hanano, al-Halak, and Jisr al-Haj in the city, meanwhile four barrel bombs were dropped on al-Intharat neighborhood, causing big damages to residential buildings.
In the northern countryside, a child was killed and three others were wounded in airstrikes by war planes on Castello Road, meanwhile Kafr Hamra, Hayyan, Anadan, and Haritan underwent artillery shelling by the regime forces positioned up the hill of Tallat al-Sheikh Yousef and al-Mallah farms.
In the southern countryside, the towns of Khalsa and al-Eis were hit by the regime air forces, causing material destruction but no casualties.
Militarily, the rebels recaptured several points from the grab of the Iranian militias and the regime forces on al-Mallah front in Aleppo northern countryside, liberating the southern hill near al-Jami’e complex as well as other spots in al-Mallah on Saturday evening. Clashes had continued until this report was made in an attempt by the rebels to take full control over al-Mallah. These battles were synchronized with heavy clashes between the rebels and the regime forces and their supporting militias on al-Khalidiyya front north from Aleppo in an attempt by the regime to capture some points. However, these attempts were repelled by the rebels who destroyed a minesweeper and killed its crew.
In the same context, the rebels declared that they destroyed a cannon for the Syrian regime in the industrial city and killed its operators.
In Aleppo eastern countryside, Syria’s Democratic Forces militia took full control over the area of Harat al-hazwana in the environs of Manbij city after fierce clashes with ISIS.
In Hamah, the regime forces launched a fierce offense in order to capture the strategic village of al-Zara in the southern countryside, but the rebels thwarted the offense and inflicted heavy losses among the regime forces under the cover of artillery and missile bombardments by the regime.
In Homs, the war forces targeted Gharnata village, the outskirts of al-Rastan city, Kisin, and Burj Qa’ie in the northern countryside from the allied village of Akrad al-Dasniyya, but no casualties were reported.
In Damascus city and countryside, five civilians were killed, including women, in Beit Jann in Qalamun after several airstrikes were conducted on the town.
In Baqin, the regime forces, supported by Hezbollah militia, tried to setup new barricades near Baqin spring and al-Baridi at the southern entrance of Madaya under mortar shelling and machine and sniper shootings from the regime checkpoints, which killed a civilian and wounded others.
Duma city underwent heavy artillery and missile shelling from the regime barricades overlooking the city on civilians’ houses, which caused the death of 3 and wounded 25 others including children. The regime forces deliberately targeted civil defense personnel in the city with artillery and mortar attacks while achieving their humanitarian duties of rescuing the wounded.
The regime forces bombarded Darayya city with ground-to-ground missiles, killing a civilian and wounding others, meanwhile five airstrikes were executed on al-Diwan road linking Khan al-Shih and al-Derkhbiyyah, whereas a Shilka fired at the road between the villages of Dei Miqrin and Ifra in the heights if Ain al-Fijah.
In Daraa, the regime war forces conducted two airstrikes on the area surrounding the old customs' department, meanwhile sporadic artillery and mortar attacks were waged on nearby plains. Meanwhile, lajat towns and villages in Daraa northern countryside where shelled by the regime tanks positioned in al-Kam warehouses..