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| '150 Syrian regime forces killed' in Aleppo town |
| 2013-07-27 |
| [GOOGLE] At least 150 Syrian regime forces have been killed in Khan al-Assal, a town in Aleppo province at the centre of an alleged chemical weapons strike this year, monitors said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that at least 10 people were reported killed on Friday in regime shelling of the northwestern province of Idlib. The deaths in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria, came as the regime tried to recapture the town, which fell to rebel fighters on Monday. More than 50 of those killed were executed by rebels after the town fell, with the rest having died in fighting, the Observatory said, adding that 30 of the dead were officers. Rebels had for months tried to take Khan al-Assal, a strategically located town in the west of Aleppo province. They finally seized the town on Monday but fighting raged on its edges the next day, said the Observatory. Amateur video filmed by rebels and distributed by the Observatory showed the bodies of dozens of regime forces in a building that had been the site of a battle. The mainstream rebel Ninth Division claimed its fighters took Khan al-Assal. But footage distributed by the Britannia-based Observatory said jihadists including Al-Nusra Front were behind the takeover. Fierce fighting raged in March in Khan al-Assal during eight days in which 200 rebels and government forces were killed. Both sides have traded accusations that chemical weapons were used in Khan al-Assal and killed around 30 people, according to a toll released that month by the Observatory and the regime. During a visit to Damascus by two UN envoys earlier this week, Syrian authorities reiterated their demand that the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... focus on investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal. Khan al-Assal's fall from regime control has complicated any effort to send in inspectors to visit the site. Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory reported 10 people killed and several others maimed in regime shelling of the Idlib village of Basamis on Friday. Syria opposition activists also held small anti-regime protests in several towns across the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 No comment from the ICRC. ICRC is busy calculating humanitarian costs of the latest Zionist outrage. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 16:29 |
| #2 The rebels [who dine on the internal organs of their enemy] execute 50. Saves a lot on chow and the medical supplies provided by the west. Important to use those humanitarian supplies sparingly. No comment from the ICRC. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-27 06:27 |
| #1 Really a suburb of Alleppo, but controls the roads south. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2013-07-27 01:48 |