At least 128 people were killed across Syria on Friday (July 20th), as Syrian troops launched an offensive against opposition forces in Damascus and Aleppo on Friday, AFP reported.
Friday's violence came after more than 300 people were killed nationwide on Thursday.
"Our brave army forces have completely cleaned the area of Midan in Damascus of the remaining mercenary terrorists and have re-established security," Syrian state television reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said truckloads of government troops were transported into the Damascus district of Jubar.
The Local Co-ordination Committees opposition group also said that the district came under government troops assault, reporting "heavy artillery and mortar fire".
In Aleppo, government soldiers opened fire at a large demonstration and fighting broke out in several of the city's districts, according to the Observatory.
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بنت العراق
2012-7-23
Long live the Syrian Military Official Army, and may help it overcome terrorism and its aids!
عصام
2012-7-22
The regime of Syria will be ousted, Allah willing, sooner than you imagine, together with its beneficiaries; we have learned what happens when the people have said their word. But the world was puzzled to the extent of intervening militarily in Libya against its tyrant; why have the world, the human rights bodies and the United Nations now become suddenly unable to see what is happening in the country? We believe that it is not on another planet that they give us resolutions to send observer committees and one time limit after the other. The committee observers (Arabs and Westerners),the shameful statements of the majority of them and the slow resolutions of the United Nations are nothing but an opportunity provided by the international community to the regime of Syria to eradicate our brothers. The spiraling of bloody armed violence leads to more victims in many Syrian cities and streets, the continuing assassinations, the abductions, the forced disappearances and arbitrary arrests, terrorist bombings, the killing of doctors and students by torture and burning them to death. But I am confident that the regime will be ousted as there is a qualitative change in the nature of the U.S. engagement with the Syrian crisis. However, the New York Times newspaper revealed late last week that elements of the CIA are operating within Turkey, near the border of Syria, to determine who among the rebels are worth getting weapons and logistical equipment in the war between the regime and those working under the umbrella of the free Syrian army, and the indicators showed the recent access of the rebels to anti-tank weapons that helped them to address the regular army forces that are besieging several Syrian cities and towns.
ادهم
2012-7-21
The curse of Allah be on evildoers