The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Within the escalation in the province… regime forces shell the north of Homs and shells leave casualties and wounded in Al-Zahraa neighborhood in the city

Areas in Talbiseh town in the northern countryside of Homs were shelled by regime forces, in conjunction with shelling targeted areas in Burj Qa’i village in the same countryside, by regime forces, also two explosions were heard in Homs city, cross sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that they caused by the fall of two missiles on areas in Al-Zahraa neighborhood in Homs city, which resulted in the death of a child and the injury of other persons with varying degrees of severity, while Qarmas and Mrimin villages which are controlled by regime forces in the northern countryside of Homs, witnessed a shelling by the factions, which resulted in the death of an officer with the rank of colonel of a plane as well as the death of a woman and the injury of others persons with varying degrees of severity, this targeting came after a renewed shelling by regime forces on places in Al-Houla area, accompanied by three rounds of aerial raids on Al-Houla, which caused injuries.

The SOHR published hours ago that areas in the northern countryside of Homs witnessed escalated and violent shelling by the regime forces and warplanes in addition to the targeting of the factions on the regime forces controlled areas, where the SOHR published earlier that the Egyptian – Russian truce implemented in the northern countryside of Homs, which began at the noon of August the 3rd and collapsed on Friday the 10th of August 2017, where the SOHR published at that time that reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that the truce of the northern countryside of Homs collapses as the violent shelling were escalating in areas in it, after the completion of one week of its beginning in areas in the northern countryside of Homs, where the information is still conflicting about the reasons of the collapse of the Egyptian – Russian truce to ‘de-escalate the tension and the military operation in the northern countryside of Homs”, where parties accused the regime of non-compliance to the agreement of ceasefire in the northern countryside of Homs, while parties said that the negotiations parties said that the agreement doesn’t meet their demands.