LATEST: Pro-Regime Activist Arrested For Call for Information on Missing Soldiers

UPDATE 1645 GMT: More videos of regime airstrikes from Idlib Province, as they counter insurgent advances with strikes on towns and villages….

Aftermath of an attack on Saraqeb:

One of the airstrikes on Saraqeb:

Maarat al-Nu’man:

A strike on Sunday on Albhit that struck near a cave being used as a shelter, killing 23 people, including women and children:

Footage has also been posted of the bombing of a field hospital in Daraa Province in southern Syria.


Under pressure from insurgents in northwest Syria and failing to break through in Damascus, the Assad regime hit back on Sunday with bombing and artillery attacks.

In Idlib Province in the northwest, where insurgents are threatening the regime’s bases at Wadi ad-Deif and al-Hamadiyah, Syrian warplanes bombarded towns and cities such as Ma’arat al-Numan, Thketbha, Saraqeb, and Khan Shaikhoun:

In Jobar in northeast Damascus, the Syrian military — repelled by insurgents in a ground assault last week, losing more than 100 troops and several tanks and armored vehicles — carried out an all-day aerial and artillery barrage:

In the assault, a field hospital was destroyed, killing the medics and injured in the makeshift facility.

Sources also reported regime attacks in Hama Province in central Syria, where insurgents have closed on Hama Military Airport and Hama city.

The Local Coordination Committees reported that 108 people — including 26 children and 17 women — were killed across the country. Of the dead, 24 were in Idlib Province, 24 in Hama Province, 19 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 13 in Aleppo Province.

Sources caution that the toll is likely to be much higher, with the LCC “getting only a fraction of the casualties from the battlegrounds”.


Pro-Regime Activist Arrested For Call for Information on Missing Soldiers

Pro-regime activist Mudar Hassan Khadur has been arrested after he launched a social media campaign calling on officials to provide information about hundreds of missing soldiers.

Khadur was detained on Friday, according to residents and activists.

The arrest comes amid signs of discontent amongst regime supporters over the death toll, fuelled by recent setbacks for the Syrian military at the hands of insurgents and the jihadist Islamic State.

A post on Khadur’s Facebook page at the weekend said he was arrested in Damascus after authorities contacted him and promised to help investigate the fate of soldiers missing from Taqba Airbase, overrun in Raqqa Province in northern Syria last week.

Video: Insurgents Blow Up Militia Building in Jobar in Damascus

Continuing to repulse regime ground attacks in Jobar in Damascus, insurgents blow up another building used by Syrian militia:

The insurgents claimed last week they had killed scores of shabiha (militia) with the underground demolition of another building.