Syria warplanes pound Damascus
17 April 2013 6:31 AM IST
Syria’s air force on Tuesday carried out several air strikes on rebel enclaves in and around Damascus, while fresh clashes between troops and rebels raged to the east of the capital, a monitoring group said.
‘At least one civilian was killed in an air strike on Qaboon’ in northeast Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, ‘while regime troops pounded the district of Jubar’ in the east.
Amateur video distributed by the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), a network of activists on the ground, showed a cloud of grey smoke rising after the air raid.
The regime also used warplanes to bombard the rebel-held towns of Yabroud, Douma and Harasta east of Damascus, as well as Sbeineh southwest of the capital, said the Observatory.
Meanwhile, ‘fierce clashes raged on the edges of Jubar (in eastern Damascus), near Abbasiyeen square,’ said the group.Rebels view the square as a strategic target because it lies well within the confines of the capital, the regime’s main bastion of power. The SRGC, meanwhile, reported the army's use of heavy artillery fire on Yarmuk in southern Damascus, with tanks also striking other rebel enclaves nearby.
Violence rages daily in southern Damascus, with rebels holding the outer edges of several districts, while the regime tries to push them out.
Elsewhere in Syria, warplanes also hit targets in the northeastern city of Raqa as well as an area near the regime-held Base 17 in the same province.
Raqa’s provincial capital fell into rebel hands in early March.
‘At least one civilian was killed in an air strike on Qaboon’ in northeast Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, ‘while regime troops pounded the district of Jubar’ in the east.
Amateur video distributed by the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), a network of activists on the ground, showed a cloud of grey smoke rising after the air raid.
The regime also used warplanes to bombard the rebel-held towns of Yabroud, Douma and Harasta east of Damascus, as well as Sbeineh southwest of the capital, said the Observatory.
Meanwhile, ‘fierce clashes raged on the edges of Jubar (in eastern Damascus), near Abbasiyeen square,’ said the group.Rebels view the square as a strategic target because it lies well within the confines of the capital, the regime’s main bastion of power. The SRGC, meanwhile, reported the army's use of heavy artillery fire on Yarmuk in southern Damascus, with tanks also striking other rebel enclaves nearby.
Violence rages daily in southern Damascus, with rebels holding the outer edges of several districts, while the regime tries to push them out.
Elsewhere in Syria, warplanes also hit targets in the northeastern city of Raqa as well as an area near the regime-held Base 17 in the same province.
Raqa’s provincial capital fell into rebel hands in early March.
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