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tabatha

(18,795 posts) Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:24 PM Jan 2012

Syria troops battle to retake Damascus suburbs, 19 die (Reuters)

(Reuters) - Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels on Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence.

They said 19 civilians and rebel fighters were killed as the soldiers in buses and armoured personnel carriers moved in at dawn, along with at least 50 tanks and armoured vehicles.

The forces of President Bashar al-Assad pushed into the Ghouta area on the eastern edge of Damascus to take part in an offensive in the suburbs of Saqba, Hammouriya and Kfar Batna.

Tanks advanced into the centre of Saqba and Kfar Batna, the activists said, in a move to flush out fighters who had taken over districts just a few kilometres from Assad's centre of power.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/29/us-syria-idUSTRE80S08620120129

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Free Syrian Army source tells CNN fighting around airport has disrupted flights into Damascus tabatha Jan 2012 #1

Dozens of martyrs and wounded lie in the streets of the city tabatha Jan 2012 #2

A futile kick and rec for more exposure (not that anyone's paying attention here...) nt riderinthestorm Jan 2012 #3

tabatha

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1. Free Syrian Army source tells CNN fighting around airport has disrupted flights into Damascus

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Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:25 PM

Jan 2012

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Free Syrian Army source tells CNN fighting around airport has disrupted flights into Damascus. #Syria
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tabatha

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2. Dozens of martyrs and wounded lie in the streets of the city

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Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:29 PM

Jan 2012

Dozens of martyrs and wounded lie in the streets of the city( East Ghouta) due to indiscriminate shelling
Posted by abeer on January 29th, 2012

Local Coordination Committees:
There are 43 martyrs in Syria today up until now including 3 children and two defected recruits. In Damascus suburbs, there were 13 martyrs in Kafar Batna, Saqba, Hamourya, Rankoos, Zabadany and Harasta. Also, 18 martyrs in Homs, 4 in Hama, 3 in each of Idlib and Daraa and one in each of Saraqeb and Damascus

Damascus Suburbs
East Ghouta
Dozens of martyrs and wounded lie in the streets of the city due to indiscriminate shelling by security forces using tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, mortars and machine guns. Military reinforcement has arrived to the city amid a city-wide curfew in conjunction with a complete power outage and no running water or heating oil and fuel. Snipers have been stationed on rooftops around the area.

Lattakia
Security forces are launching a detention campaign in Al-Ashrafya and Saleba neighborhoods and one residential building was raided

Homs
the neighborhoods of Baba Amr and Basateen Jobar are under intense shelling by heavy weaponry. Violent clashes at Kfar Aya junction between the regime’s Army and the Free Syrian Army. Injuries have been reported.

http://www.lccsyria.org/5816

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(A good source of news on Syria - http://www.lccsyria.org/)

riderinthestorm

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3. A futile kick and rec for more exposure (not that anyone's paying attention here...) nt

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Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:54 PM

Jan 2012

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