Air Raid Kills 12 Members of One Family near Damascus as Rebels Attack Airbase in Idlib
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An air raid on a town partly held by rebels on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday killed at least 12 members of the same family, most of them children, a watchdog said.
Regime warplanes bombed the town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, southwest of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Elsewhere, fierce fighting that erupted overnight in the northwest of the country raged into the day as rebels attacked regime troops stationed around an airbase causing casualties on both sides, the Britain-based Observatory said.
Outside Damascus, warplanes attacked the towns of Shebaa to the southeast and Deir Assafir to the south, where according to Human Rights Watch 11 children were killed in November when cluster bombs were dropped on a playground.
The deadly strikes came as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled rebels in Harasta and Douma, insurgent strongholds to the northeast of the capital, and in Daraya to the southwest.
Army reinforcements have been massing for weeks in Daraya in a bid to drive rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from the town, the site of the bloodiest massacre of the conflict in which hundreds died in August.
Northeast of Damascus, the army shelled Qaboon district, the Observatory said, while in the south, residents of a Palestinian refugee camp that faced deadly air raids in December were sent fleeing once again by barrages of mortar fire.
In northwestern Syria, clashes between mostly jihadist rebel fighters and Assad's forces at Taftanaz airbase in Idlib province killed four insurgents and an unknown number of soldiers, the Observatory said.
A local resident told Agence France Presse that the army was carrying out air raids around the Taftanaz base in an attempt to repel the multi-pronged attack headed by the Islamist groups the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham.
The rebel assault came after authorities announced the temporary closure of the international airport in Aleppo province on Tuesday, after days of attacks there by the insurgents who hold vast swathes of territory in the north.
Fighting also broke out around the crucial Wadi Deif base, one of the last regime bastions in northwestern Syria, in a fresh jihadist-led bid to wrest control of the strategic post.
An Australian national fighting alongside rebels was among those killed, the Observatory said.
Australian citizen "Abu al-Walid al-Australi was killed ... in a rebel assault on Wadi Deif," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP via telephone on Wednesday.
The Al-Nusra Front has led the offensive against Wadi Deif, according to rebels on the ground.
Insurgents captured the nearby town of Maaret al-Numan, located on the important Damascus-Aleppo highway, in October.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground, says the 21-month conflict has killed 46,000 people, many of them civilians.
02 January 2013, 14:01
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are islamist groups really this strong or is the syrian army really this weak?
02 January 2013, 15:43
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get the original article and let's examine the sources (your unkown website cites AlQuds AlArabi without linking to the article and I was unable to find it on their website) . in any case, the ASSad regime has already been in contact with Israel. In any any case, that is IRRELEVANT to this article...ASSad is using airstrikes against his own people.
02 January 2013, 15:49
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theRetardance: the same website that you quoted also unequivocally confirms that hizbocrap and ASSad killed Wissam alHassan.
#Fail.
02 January 2013, 15:57
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lol theresistance, if the west really wanted to help the FSA they would have done already no? lol! but as your beloved bashar is the peacekeeper of the golan heights they are reluctant... so you are allied with those you criticize! hahaha!
02 January 2013, 15:59
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My western sources? I have never even heard of the website and this clearly you have a very distorted view of how to read the media. The article cited alQuds alArabi and "intelligence sources", alQuds alArabi does not have the article on its website so dig it up if you want to use it as proof. YOU are the one quoting an unsupported Israeli source to try to further your point. YOU need to wake up!
02 January 2013, 16:09
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again, always interesting to read idiots that support hizbocrap speak out against armed militias!
02 January 2013, 16:11
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i guess theresistance that you can buy weapons made in USA on the market , does that make USA help you? lol...
a few stingers make the USA back them? you are hilarious... all that to deny that israel prefers your friend in power! which makes you bug at the thought hahaha!!!
if you were "resistant" you d fight israel but you are defending a regime that didn t shoot a single bullet towards israel but prefers t kill its own children, yes very "resistant" isn t it? you are a joke....
if USA helped the FSA it would be over by now, think a bit!
02 January 2013, 16:14
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peace ma howe, according to these idiots, ASSad is holding off the whole world!! but of course when Israel bombed Syria a few years back...there was ZERO response!
02 January 2013, 16:36
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Part 3 you have not answered any of the concerns except mocked them like a typical hizbocrap, ASSad supporter.
02 January 2013, 17:19
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the day you ll stop mixing everything for the sake of your propaganda we could have a decent talk.
1/ i am commenting this article, and the killings done by your friend bashar. i also comment when massacres are done by the other side in case you don t know.
2/ i am talking about syria and its regime and instead of answering you resort to KSA as a way to elude the fact that they never fired against israel... but prefer others to do the job so that they do not suffer the consequences!! but it makes you bug when we say that! coz in your propaganda they "resist"! what a farce!
you prefer lebanon to be destroyed to safeguard the peace of syria! yes what a resistant you and hezbos are!!!! golan heights are colonized but they DID NOTHING to liberate them...
02 January 2013, 17:51
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@resistance . when israel assasinated someone in Gaza hamas responded ! Nasrallah clearly warned Israel that if it interferes in Lebanese affairs missiles will rain down! and then Hezbollah claims that Israel killed Lebanon's Prime minister and at least 17 others in Lebanon, most recently wissam! where are the missiles where is the response?!? contradiction no? they only attack Israel when given the order by Iran. no resistance!
02 January 2013, 17:54
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no one asked about ANY of the points that you mentioned they're just the sheep rhetoric that nasrocrap taught you. Learn to read comments before responding. "Princess", is that nasrocrap's nickname for you? Feeling pretty??
02 January 2013, 15:35
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chatrin to bomb its own people but like a pup as far as israel is concerned!
and theresistance to write " Syrian "Revolution" meet with their Zioinst partners" as if his friend bashar wasn t the closest ally of israel to maintain peace with them and never shelling them lol!!! so braiwashed M8 people still believing that bashar is a "resistant" LOL!
02 January 2013, 16:59
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Taftanaz airbase and Wadi Deif will fall in the next two weeks together.
02 January 2013, 21:37
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I hope so. The resistance better pull its fighters before all of Dahye starts pouring red wax on every door in Lebanon. The Bashar - hezbocrap regime is about to implode
02 January 2013, 17:55
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the kharesistance supports an armed militia yet does not like other armed militias since they're a different sect than him...
02 January 2013, 21:32
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It's a shame you and your homo buddies from Ashrafieh wernt there.
02 January 2013, 21:36
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The resistance is a cross dresser with multiple identities just like his propaganda, non sensical, retard of a leader - Hassan Nasocrap.
02 January 2013, 23:45
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The resistance... Man get a life. All u do is comment on this website. Don't u have a car to steal, some heroin to water or some assassination to plot?
