Violent clashes on Barza gardens’ front ,east of Damascus

Violent clashes on Barza gardens’ front ,east of Damascus, where government forces managed to control few houses in the area, while opposition factions killed and wounded some of the government forces after blocking their progress towards Qaboun neighborhood. The Air force also raided this neighborhood with rockets and artillery shells.

Opposition factions in Damascus countryside managed to destroy a government 14.5-caliber machine gun in Medani town, and targeted government strongholds on Damascus - Homs international highway with mortars. They also targeted a position of one of the government snipers on Arabin front. Muhammadiyah, Otayya and Kafarbatna towns have been also hit by several shells resulting in number of wounded civilians.

The violent clashes in Aleppo’s Eastern and Northern countryside continue, especially on “Family House” front, during which the rebels managed to block government progress, killed and wounded dozens, they also destroyed a soldiers’ carrier and a “M.D” base with Tao rockets.

Amid these clashes Russian warplanes raided Adnan city in the northern countryside acompanied by artillery shelling on the town of Kafr Hamra and Lirmon. In eastern countryside, there were raids on Dara 'Azza and Kfar kermin towns, while in the southern side, Hopper Village was heavily shelled. 

Other clashes happened between government forces and Daesh elements in Sharifa village in the eastern countryside.

Air force launched violent raids on several towns in the northern countryside like, Kfrzita and Altamna and Halvaya and Teiba, and Morc city was also heavily shelled. While the opposition factions replied to this attack by targeting al-Rajamat in the 87th Brigade with Grad rockets.

Field sources said that prisoners exchange operation between “El Fatah Army” and Shiite militias in Kafriya and al-Fo'a happened Tuesday evening, in what seems to be the beginning to carry out the  four-city agreement. There were also news that evacuation of the besieged in Kafriya and al-Fo'a started.

The government forces managed to control some locations Hallabat palace area in Homs, after clashes between them and Daesh elements. Opposition factions in Al-Mansheya district in Daraa managed to free 15 residential blocks, destroyed a tank and killed some of the government forces.

The Air Force raided Daraa neighborhoods with heavy shells to prevent the factions’ progress. The factions announced the start of “Daggers’  Dismantling” operation in Yarmouk to evict Daesh organization, targeting their locations with mortar shells. The rebels target in the first phase of this operation is to control Glenn town, the Libyan company, the battalion of the "M.D".

Government forces launched a campaign of arrests against young civilians in Deir al-Zour to make them join compulsory military service or to force them into forced labor. The international Coalition airplanes raided the area between the village of Heneida and the Al-Safsaf farm in the western countryside, amid clashes between government forces and Syrian democratic Forces. The Democratic Forces managed to reach "Raqqa Damascus" motorway in the western countryside, obtained machinery, killed and wounded number of Daesh elements, while other civilians were wounded during the clashes between Kurdish People's Protection Forces and the people of "Pelodan" village, when the forces tried to arrest a person in connection with Daesh.