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An Alawite village attacked by Syrian rebels with bombs. [28] Basatin al-Hasawiya massacre: 15 January 2013 Homs: 106 Syrian Army Syrian government troops stormed the village of Basatin al-Hasawiya on the outskirts of Homs city reportedly killing 106 civilians. [29] Queiq River massacre: 29 January–14 March 2013 Queiq River, Aleppo: 147–230 ...
The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: مَعْرَكَةُ حَلَبَ, romanized: Maʿrakat Ḥalab) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, [78] between the Syrian opposition (including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other largely-Sunni groups, such as the Levant Front and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front) [79 ...
The rebels claimed that the victims were civilians who tried to flee the battle in Homs and were then killed by a pro-government militia. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] On 9 March 2012, during the 2012 Homs offensive , 30 tanks of the Syrian Army entered the quarter of Karm al-Zeitoun. [ 8 ]
Wounded civilians arrive at a hospital in Aleppo during the Syrian civil war, October 2012 Victims of chemical weapon attack on civilians in Ghouta, an opposition held area. The casualties of the Syrian civil war have been vast; UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura stated in April 2016 that 400,000 people had died in the conflict. [3]
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the ...
The Aleppo bombings (April–July 2016) were intense bombardments on both rebel and government-held areas in the city of Aleppo, Syria starting in late April 2016. Some rebel shelling also hit a Kurdish-held part of the city. The bombings decreased in intensity after 55 days when a temporary truce was established. [3]
Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo: army says dozens of soldiers killed. Ayman Abdel Nour, a former friend of Syria's leader from their college days studying medicine in Damascus and the editor-in ...
It is the first time Syrian rebels have set foot in Aleppo since government forces regained control during the civil war in 2016. ... Aleppo was also the main rebel stronghold until Assad took it ...