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Syrian air force targets opposition-held areas in Daraa with barrel bombs
2015-05-01
[ARA] Syrian warplanes launched several Arclight airstrikes against rebel-held areas in the southern province of Daraa on Thursday.

Speaking to ARA News in Daraa, civil rights activist Ahmed Hassan reported that pro-regime helicopters dropped several barrel bombs on the city of Nawa in the countryside of the province, causing the injury of a at least nine civilians.

"Similar bombing targeted the areas of al-Malzuma, Bas al-Hareer, Salmin and the rebel-held neighborhoods of Daraa," he reported.

In the meantime, rebels of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) targeted gatherings of pro-regime forces with missiles in the university area of ​​Lajat, and also targeted "Brigade 12″ in the city Izraa.

Local sources reported that the rebels' shelling of the strongholds of pro-Assad forces caused large kabooms. The number of casualties remains unidentified.

Also on Thursday, the rebel-linked Courthouse in Horan region in southern Syria issued a statement, calling upon allied factions in Horan and the Golan area are asked to arrest commanders of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade after they swore allegiance to the radical group of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, and killed a number of FSA fighters while on their way to fight the Assad forces in the Baath City of Quneitra province.
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