(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed by Syrian regime in the northern countryside of Homs on Saturday, three of them passed away in a toxic-gas attack, activists said, reporting 35 suffocation cases.
Homs Media Center said regime military had fired a missile carrying poisonous gas on the stricken town of Talbiseh that took the 'Lion's share' of Bashar al-Assad's 4-week-old offensive on rural Homs.
4 people have also killed in air strikes hit al Sha'baniya village, the center said.
The regime army and allied militias have launched a series of ground offensives against rebel-held areas of western and northwestern Syria since Russia began air strikes in the country on Sept. 30.
Russian warplanes killed at least 150 people in more than 300 airstrikes in October, according to local activists.
In Syrian north, a newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in Hasaka province, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists, Reuters said.
It was the first declared operation by the Democratic Forces of Syria, which joins together a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and several Syrian Arab rebel groups, since it announced its formation earlier this month.
Fighting in Hasaka had begun after midnight, a spokesman for the alliance said. A group monitoring the war reported fighting and coalition air strikes in the area.
The Raqqa Revolutionaries Front, one of the Arab groups in the alliance, on Thursday declared an imminent offensive against Islamic State in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa province, which borders Hasaka.
Homs Media Center said regime military had fired a missile carrying poisonous gas on the stricken town of Talbiseh that took the 'Lion's share' of Bashar al-Assad's 4-week-old offensive on rural Homs.
4 people have also killed in air strikes hit al Sha'baniya village, the center said.
The regime army and allied militias have launched a series of ground offensives against rebel-held areas of western and northwestern Syria since Russia began air strikes in the country on Sept. 30.
Russian warplanes killed at least 150 people in more than 300 airstrikes in October, according to local activists.
In Syrian north, a newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in Hasaka province, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists, Reuters said.
It was the first declared operation by the Democratic Forces of Syria, which joins together a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and several Syrian Arab rebel groups, since it announced its formation earlier this month.
Fighting in Hasaka had begun after midnight, a spokesman for the alliance said. A group monitoring the war reported fighting and coalition air strikes in the area.
The Raqqa Revolutionaries Front, one of the Arab groups in the alliance, on Thursday declared an imminent offensive against Islamic State in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa province, which borders Hasaka.
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