(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed 5 soldiers in Handarat neighborhood of Aleppo province on Tuesday as the heavy fighting sharply escalated, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported for the first time the participation of new Palestinian militia so-called ‘al-Quds al-Falasetini’ which is fighting along side with Basher al-Assad forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militia and National Defence Units (NDF).
Aleppo Media Center reported killing of a woman when Assad’s warplanes hammered Dir Hafer town in the southern countryside
AMC also said that Hazem movement had targeted the regime strongholds in Salah al-Deen neighborhood by mortar fire.
Near Damascus, regime warplanes have conducted airstrikes on Erbin and Ayn Terma towns in the Eastern Ghouta, killing 7 people at least, according to the Observatory.
The Observatory also reported violent clashes between the regime forces and the Islamic battalions in Zebdeen and al Rayhan orchards near the city of Douma, the observatory added.
The embattled Yarmouk Refugee Camp has witnessed sporadic clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and pro-Assad Palestinian militia of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).
In another war front, rebels of Daraya, south-west outskirts of the capital, have killed top commander of regime’s republican guards units on Monday as heavy fighting still taking place on the outskirts of the city, activists said.
Fighting renewed in Daraya after calm and negotiations for long-term ceasefire. But the efforts have been failed to reach a deal, local activists say.
East Syria, 10 soldiers, including an officer, were killed in clashes with ISIS fighters Tuesday in a rare ground confrontation between the two sides in the eastern Deir al-Zor province, Reuters said.
"Violent clashes have been ongoing since the morning between ISIS and an allied Islamist brigade on the one hand, and regime forces on the other," said Rami Abdulrahman who runs the Observatory.
Most of the rest of the province is in the hands of ISIS, which has captured tracts of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq since the summer and has been the target of U.S.-led airstrikes.
off the group's access to oil and its ability to transfer arms and fighters across the border with Iraq.
More than 191,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011.
(Editing by Anwar Diab)
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