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At least 21 people killed in air strikes on Eastern Ghouta towns
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime warplanes on Thursday have staged air strikes on Eastern Ghouta towns near Damascus, killing at least 21 people, including children, and wounding about 140, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl.Local activists said 12 people have been killed in the stricken town of Erbin while 6 more people have been killed in nearby Zamalka, in less than 24 hours since 10 people bit the dust in the aerial bombing on Zamalka. Three more people were killed in Douma city, activists added. On Wednesday, Syrian regime and rebel bombardment killed at least 24 civilians and maimed dozens in the capital and the embattled Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said. Mortar rounds fired from the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region onto residential areas of Damascus left nine civilians dead and 25 maimed, local monitoring group tracks rebels shelling on Damascus said. The attack came after the regime fired 6 cluster rockets onto Douma earlier in the day, killing five civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and media center. Eastern Ghouta, which is largely controlled by the Jaish al-Islam  ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...(Army of Islam) rebel group, is regularly bombarded by government forces. Ten other civilians, including a child, were later killed in government Posted by: Fred 2016-01-09 |
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