The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights


A member of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) looks at the valley in the village of Ain al-Baida, in the Idlib province of Syria, not far from the Turkish border, on December 15, 2011. A rebel group of Syrian defectors reportedly took position against the Syrian Army along the Turkish border. Army defectors killed at least eight Syrian troops on December 14 in an act of revenge after security forces shot dead five civilians, activists said, in the second such insurgent attack in as many days. "At least eight soldiers were killed in an ambush on four military jeeps travelling in the village of Al-Asharna on the outskirts of (the central city of) Hama," said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The violence comes amid diplomatic wrangling, as Western nations seek tough action against Syria at the UN Security Council, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has support from his veto-wielding ally Russia. AFP PHOTO / ENN - SEZAYI ERKEN = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Photo credit should read SEZAYI ERKEN/AFP/Getty Images)

43 fighters so far were killed in ambush at the abandoned battalion in the middle sector countryside of Daraa

Daraa Province, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
It rose to 43, the number of fighters in the ranks of the rebel and Islamic Factions who were killed yesterday in the abandoned Battalion area, located east of Abtaa town in the middle countryside of Daraa, and documented by the Syrian Observatory, the fighters belong to several factions in Dara province, they had an ambush carried out by the regime when they were taking their places in the vicinity of the abandoned battalion, they wanted to carry out a surprise attack against the regime forces in the battalion, but the regime forces were able to besiege them and cut the roads they prepared for escaping by targeting them with guns and heavy machineguns, then members of the regime pulled the bodies of most of them after killing them, the number of killed fighters may rise because some of them are still missing, also several members of the regime forces and the gunmen loyal to them were killed during the ambush.

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