Syria: battle near Damascus, at least 72 dead

It is battle near Damascus, in the Guta region east of the Syrian capital. At least 72 fighters died in clashes between Islamist extremist groups on the one hand and the regular army on the other. The most numerous losses, the London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported in the anti-Assad camp 28 killed belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and 26 dead of the Free Army of Syria, while in the loyalist camp there are 18 dead.

Among those who lost their lives there are 5 activists who in this year have told the civil war on Youtube with videos and correspondences.

Since Thursday, the NGO added, there have been at least 160 fighting deaths in the region: among them 55 rebels, 41 jihadists, 36 soldiers, 20 militiamen of the Shiite brigades loyal to Assad and another 8 loyalists.

Meanwhile, according to a report by Oxford Research in London, anticipated by some media, more than 11,000 children have died in Syria since the beginning of the conflict, often killed by bombs but also targeted by snipers and sometimes tortured. The document also mentions “summary executions”: of the 11,420 victims under the age of 17, 2 223 died in the Aleppo area; 389 were killed by a sniper, 764 “summarily executed, and more than 100 have been” tortured “, the report underlines

24 novembre 2013