A surface-to-surface rocket by Bashar al-Assad‘s forces hit Al-Takaya
Street in the city of Deir al-Zor on Friday, leaving one man killed and many
others injured, Syrian Observatory for human Rights said.
The observatory reported that
Islamic battalions have targeted the regime stronghold in the city with mortar
bombs in Al-Ommal neighborhood, human losses and casualties in regime forces
reported.
Yesterday, a series of
bombing by the State of Iraq and al-Sham hit al-Nusra Front’s headquarters
leaving 6 people killed, Zaman Alwasl sources said.
In relevant development
from Deir al-Zor, Islamist have ordered women to put on the Islamic
veil, warning that anyone not doing so would be held to account, in a concerted
new attempt by hardliners to impose their strict views on society, according to
Reuters.
In a statement, an organization calling itself the Islamic
Law Council of Deir al-Zor gave women until Saturday to don the face veil. It
did not say what punishment would befall women who fail to comply with the
order.
Armed Islamist groups have become the most powerful force in
the almost three-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, who has
long portrayed himself as the defender of a secular order in Syria.
"Given that sins are the main reason delaying victory,
the legal council in the town of Deir al-Zor is obliged to promote virtue and
prevent vice," said the statement posted by an activist on Facebook and also reported by the Syrian
Observatory, whose monitors records violence in the Syrian civil war. With
Reuters
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