The Syrian army on Saturday (August 11th) shelled the Salaheddine district of Aleppo, AFP reported.
The Free Syrian Army staged a withdrawal from the district on Thursday, but opposition commanders said their forces are still putting up resistance there.
"Fierce fighting has continued without respite for the past 24 hours as the army tries to push us out of the neighbourhood," opposition commander Abdel Qader Saleh told AFP.
Regime forces on Saturday also shelled the eastern Aleppo district of Sayf al-Dawla, the western neighbourhoods of Bustan al-Qasr and Masharaqa, and the Malak district, where one opposition fighter was killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Meanwhile, two bombs exploded on Saturday in the heart of Damascus, state television said, without reporting casualties.
Gunfire was reported on Baghdad Street in central Damascus and clashes between opposition and government forces were reported elsewhere in the capital, including Tadamun and Qadam.
The renewed violence came as at least 39 people, including 20 civilians, were killed in violence across the country, the Observatory said.
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هاشم كمال
2012-8-14
There are a lot of massacres that could take place if we do not try to put a limit to Bashar al-Assad. The revolutionary people are subjected to the worst repressive campaigns suffered by civilians in the whole world. Bashar is treating citizens as if he were dealing with enemies. Bashar al-Assad has turned into a war criminal and we cannot remain silent towards his criminal acts targeting our Syrian brothers who are subjected to extreme genocide campaigns. There are many crimes committed against the Syrian people with all its classes from the old to the young. The Syrian regime has no compassion neither towards the elderly nor the young who are subjected to the most heinous ways of killing.
وائل
2012-8-14
The Arab Governments need to speed up the state of siege against the Syrian regime at all levels to avoid anything that can harm Syrians. They should work on introducing assistance including weapons and money from the countries supporting the Syrian regime otherwise, the Syrian regime cannot be defeated. Without the help of some countries, the Syrian regime would have collapsed since a long time. In fact, the Syrian regime has a lot of weapons that it is using against its own people. Arab countries do not make quick moves to besiege the regime. Expelling the regime’s Ambassadors is not enough. Arab countries should work on sending military forces in order to relieve the Syrian lands from the oppression of Bashar and his clique. The Syrian people do not have what it needs to face the Syrian regime. They do not have sophisticated weapons. The Syrian resistance cannot have the same quantity of weapons as the State. The latter works on obtaining weapons in order to eradicate the peaceful Syrian people.
صابر عيسى
2012-8-13
Syria has experienced a difficult period because of the siege imposed by the various greedy enemies. The latter sought to shed the blood of the Syrian people as if they were heartless and merciless monsters and predators. The siege of enemies seems to be endless. Everyone is seeking the destruction of the honored people of Syria. On the one hand, there is Bashar al-Assad and his army who started to kill and slaughter his own people as if they were meaningless insects facing the insecticide. Indeed, this man showed no mercy towards his people. He swore to make whoever wishes to defy him to regret that forever. All the opponents of the regime were punished by Bashar al-Assad and his army. On the other hand, there are the bloody extremist terrorist organizations, led by al-Qaeda. These mercenaries had gathered from different countries and different nationalities only to make Syrian people suffer again and again solely on account of their nationality. These terrorists seem to be heartless and devoid of any human emotion. In fact, they turned into infernal killing machines which do not distinguish between the Syrian people. They are killing all social categories and all popular opposition of their sterile and violent thoughts. At the end of the day, there have been different expectations about the fate of the brotherly Syria. The views fall into two main opinions. The first view is rather optimistic and hopeful. Those who share this view believe that Syria will restore its security and take a breath to complete the process of its bright and great civilization. They expect Syria to achieve prosperity, progress and development. This beautiful dream of the Arab country could come true. In fact, the Arabs have aspired to unite for long. They want to establish a united Arab nation in order to enable the Governments and the peoples to face all enemies who are killing our beloved Syria. The enemies do not observe anything.
راشد جليل
2012-8-13
Bashar and his regime’s bandits had committed the worst crimes ever against humanity. Indeed, they killed many families in Homs, including children and women. Some victims have been burned to death. Some others were shot dead. The rest have been mutilated and beaten to death. Besides, there were many martyred children who had been tortured by the criminal regime. They were shot dead by the treacherous regime criminals. Many districts in Syria had been completely destroyed. These places witnessed the most heinous criminal practices, including the slaughtering of people with knives, the raping of women, the burning of everything there, the killing of all the inhabitants. We know quite well that the events covered in media represent a small proportion of the real situation in Syria. The number of martyrs has become countless. We depend on Allah only for help.
علاء
2012-8-13
God will help the Syrian people!
وليد احمد
2012-8-12
The Syrian regime has rejected any kind of investigation. It also prevented civil society and humanitarian organizations such as the Red Crescent and the Red Cross from accessing the distressed areas. The regime also banned the presence of neutral Arab and international parties and failed to declare the names of victims and to console their families through showing even a little sadness. The regime is expected to hide its joy over the victory and to promise to prosecute the killers. The history of this regime is marked by the killing of tens of victims. Indeed, there are tens of thousands of videos showing its crimes, which prove its criminality as well as its massacres. The videos confirm that this damned regime is moving forward to face the fate of the past criminals such as Gaddafi. The acts of the regime prove that its end is getting closer and closer. Then, the police, the regime’s insurgents, the gangs, the lies and the fabrication will not help at all. Woe to criminals! O Allah! Grant victory to the Syrian people.
خيرت
2012-8-12
Who are we to allow ourselves to watch our Arab brothers disunited and being killed like animals and sheep, while the fear in their hearts after the lost any hope in survival and life itself. The words bleed for carrying and expressing these sad meanings, but we do not cry. This is the time for the awakening. We should rise to be the strongest nation and to make our states the strongest even if this was the end of the world. We have to be together to protect each other to meet God while we are feeling proud of good thing that we have done.
صادق احمد
2012-8-12
Syria witnesses many events that represent glad tidings about eminent way out. We are waiting eagerly and worriedly for fear of the continuity of this malicious disease. What is happening now in Syria from all enemies who include the army and thugs of Bashar and the bombings of the terrorist movements against the civilians, houses, and institutions is very dangerous. These conditions are still continuing without any regret. And this threatens with comprehensive destruction on the land of Syria if they did not stop naturally or through some miracle that may save it. On the other hand, the good intentions of the Arab rulers who said that they are all ready to help the people of Syria and save them from the hands of Bashar and his soldiers as well as the terrorist organizations because they all seek to destroy the Syria to the ground as if it is an old revenge that they want to settle today. This happens despite the fact that the Syria is the greatest Arab state and it is known with peacefulness and kindness. Its people are the kindest people on earth. We have to work hard to expect what is good and we call on the Arab states and governments to implement their expressed intentions regarding defending Syria against all the known and unknown enemies.
ازهر كامل
2012-8-12
Al-Qaeda is the leading terrorist organization in the world and all such organizations bring death everywhere. They astonished the world because of their influence on their followers given their hardheartedness and the lack of kind emotions and human feelings as if they are not human beings with souls. They shed the blood of the innocents while raising the banner of “War in the Cause of God and Islam”. these terrorist organizations decided to make fear deep-rooted in the hearts of the innocent Syrians to be easy victims and to be destroyed easily. They seek to achieve their old dream to rule the Arab world. hence, all the Arab governments and their leaders must take a unified stance to confront those enemies who are destroying the lands and people of the beloved Syria.
عامر محمد
2012-8-12
Criminal Bashar, his soldiers and his supporters have used all the means to deter the protesters and those who refuse his rule. Thus, they have succeeded in changing nothing but to emphasize the determination, the unity and the stability in order to fulfill the objective which consists in the overthrow of an oppressive and criminal regime. Thus, they have used all the heavy and light weapons, the forbidden ones and gases and opted for murder which has affected everyone including new born children, mothers, the elderly and the youth without exception. Unfortunately, people can do nothing except pray and raise money. In fact, they believe that God the Almighty will reverse the balance because He has forbidden injustice, murder, oppression, cruelty, mutilation and all kinds of aggression. God the Almighty is the wisest.
عبد مناف عطا
2012-8-12
Dozens and hundreds men, women and children have died as victims of the criminal regime in Damascus and before them a lot of lives have been gradually claimed since the implementation of the plan of Kofi Annan in Syria. In so doing, it seems evident that the plan which is thought to be “peaceful” is nothing but a knife which is sharpened to slaughter the people and claim the lives of more people with the praise of the International Organization and its international envoy while the whole world is watching. I wonder what peaceful plan is this. I also wonder what kind of international envoy that is watching and what world we are living in. Unfortunately, this is the bullying of a regime and a president who has lost his mind with an international conspiracy helped by an international negligence. It seems that he is still driven by his personal interests rather than a defender of a moral system which must be the first criterion.
امجد سعيد
2012-8-11
The number of Syria’s enemies has multiplied and the country has fallen prey to their greed. However, I wonder where Arabs are in this injustice. In fact, the entire Arab World must unite in order to save brotherly Syria from all the dangers which are surrounding it and all the enemies which have found eating the flesh of Syrians alive sweet.
محمد عبد القادر
2012-8-11
There must be an international intervention to save Syria from the slaughter, the injustice, the murder, the devastation and the destruction. The world must help Syria in its crisis until it becomes safe once again.