Syrian military retakes several Damascus districts, 77 dead across country

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At least 77 Syrians, including seven children, were killed Tuesday (July 24th) as the military battled opposition forces nationwide, AFP reported.

"At least seven civilians, including six children, were killed by regime forces shelling the [southern] town of Herak," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Eight other people were killed when government forces put down a prison mutiny in Aleppo following a similar prison rebellion in Homs, the Observatory added.

The group also reported fighting in the Aleppo neighbourhoods of Sukari, Sakhur and Hanano.

In Damascus, the Observatory reported military offensives in the Qadam and Assali neighbourhoods and intense clashes involving tanks in al-Hajar al-Aswad.

For days, the army has been battling to retake control of several opposition-held districts around Damascus, seizing Mezze in the west, Barzeh in the northeast and Midan in the south, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Tuesday's violence follows at least 116 people reported killed on Monday, including 64 civilians and 35 soldiers.

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    rada

    2012-12-22

    May Allah have mercy upon them. We ask God to grant victory to the Syrian people and support them against their enemies. We all supplicate for them and we stand by them. It is enough that our president, may God bless him, is trying to find a solution to their problem. The Egyptians always help their neighbors and we stand with them until God grants them victory over the mad dog Bashar Al-Assad, who keeps killing them everyday until they are exterminated. However, I am sure that he would be destroyed as God said in the Quran. God is watchful, and all oppressors would face a dark end. If he escaped from his people, then he would never be able to escape from God. He must be afraid of the supplications of the oppressed. This man oppressed many people and killed many people and demolished many houses. He displaced the people everywhere and the Syrians currently have no place to go. In addition, each family has a martyr.

  • محسن حسين

    2012-11-29

    Damascus and all the Syrian provinces are bleeding and we are just watching without making any move. The Syrian people must be helped as they are living in the worst moments of their lives. Also, they will have winter which is very cold in Syria. Damascus is one of the most wonderful capitals in the world, but it was exposed to a murder that it was not exposed to when it was occupied. Now, Syria is completely demolished. Therefore, we must help it with everything that we have. What is happening with them is not acceptable by any doctrine or religion. I appeal to you with all my strength to support that innocent country. The people of Syria are being brutally massacred and their homes are being destroyed as well. Help those lives, those martyrs, and also the children, young people, women, and elderly who are innocent, so every free patriot must help the Syrian refugees. They are decent people who have no guilt in life and yet all of this happened to them. They are innocent children and women who are displaced so we must help them or let them be. They have a right over us which is to help, support and free them from this life full of continuous sadness because of Bashar al-Assad and his agents. The Syrian people are human beings like us. They are like us and not animals. Even the animals should not be killed so. How can we allow Bashar al-Assad to destroy Syria and its people in a violent and barbaric manner? This Bashar does not have or know mercy.

  • صمد هاشم

    2012-7-25

    O Rescuer, relieve the Syrian people, release them and drive their harm away as their patience has run out, but they believe that you are victorious with your strength. They are hoping for your mercy and fearing your torment. Drive their worries away and have mercy on them, O Allah, O beneficent, O Creator of the heavens and the earth, O Lord of majesty and bounty, O Most Merciful. O Allah, avenge from Bashar and his troops. O Allah, blind them on your servants, O Lord of the universe. O Allah, weaken and destroy them. O Allah, make them enemies to each other. O Allah, make the evil-doers face the oppressors and get us out of their quarrel safely through your mercy, O Lord of the universe.

  • خيري فاضلي

    2012-7-25

    When you support the Syrian people it’s at matter fact supporting yourselves and reviving your conscience before it’s for the Syrian people, you’re saving yourselves, your religion and life or Allah is our victor and helper and we don’t have anyone by our side but him, we rely on him and we don’t need no more any support from The Arab league of shame or from frightened council covering with the league so that no one embarrass it with toppling a regime that protects Israel, and we don’t want nothing but to save yourselves of what is coming for you. Don’t leave Syria as you did with Iraq before and Palestine, be like the European countries regarding what it did for Bosnia fearing of American interfering, and we ask Allah that no harm come to you as did to Syria.

  • علي النعمة

    2012-7-25

    Of course, everyone can see the suffering that the Syrian people are enduring at the hands of the tyrant Bashar and his cohorts, and as such, I demand him to resign from power and to have mercy on his people and spare them his oppression, and the day will come when we will see the Syrian people having regained their peace and security, and restored stability in their country. I call on him to urgently step down and that he has done enough wrong to his people without mercy for his people, and he has inflicted on them the most atrocious torture and worst forms of suffering. I call on him to urgently step down and resign so that the Syrian people can make the transition to an era of peace after the era of war that they have lived through during his rule, and so that they can rebuild their country and restore stability to their country and peace to its people.

  • سرور حسن

    2012-7-25

    The Syrian regime is convicted in the eyes of the whole world because its crimes against the Syrian people and using the suppressing tools which it’s not be used under any circumstances with his own people. How many times we saw the Syrian army burying people alive, how many times we saw murdered children lay scattered everywhere. The Syrian crimes became so many and will not be erased from history. The Syrian people has witnessed a lot of massacres which happen to it all over Syria, even the international borders have its own share. The entire Arab world boycotted the Syrian regime which made it more crazy, but how much it gets crazy it will stop and not on its will but with god’s will who will comforts us with vengeance regarding what he has done to our fellow brothers and children whom got executed without crime. The Syrian army bombs villages or certain locations then accompany the thugs while they slay the citizen – men, women or children. That exactly what happened in Al Hawla and Al Qubier Massacres where the thugs enter to finish the mission with slaying the biggest number of the population without distinction between a child and a woman or an elderly.

  • عباس

    2012-7-25

    I would like to address a message to Bashar calling on him to step down and have mercy on his people and spare them his injustices and tyranny, and to give himself a chance to be forgiven by Allah of these actions of his, and this is how I call on Bashar to resign, praying to Allah that he will have mercy on his people and spare them his tyranny and brutality, and that Allah will have mercy on them and protect them against him.

  • رسل عدنان

    2012-7-25

    Bashar al-Assad has indeed engaged in tyranny and humiliation against his people. He has allowed himself to commit the most heinous crimes and the harshest atrocities against the people of his country whom he is supposed to be watching over and protect, and not fight against. A legitimate right that all of us have been endowed with ever since life was breathed into our bodies is the right to peacefully express our opinions and in self-defense within the bounds of mutual respect whenever we find ourselves under tyranny. This is all that the brotherly people of Syria have done. All that the Syrian citizens have done is that they wanted to effect change because of what has befallen them and what they have been deprived of. They wanted to be governed by a system that takes care of them and is primarily engaged in realizing their demands, and as long as a system does not carry out its principal function of protecting the interests of the people, it is better to overthrow it and put another one in its place. As soon as this noble people began to express this opinion of theirs, the whole people of Syria were punished collectively by means of killing and execution in all kinds of ways possible, and in the harshest ways.