The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 10 casualties and wounded in a massacre carried out by warplanes of the Syrian regime after targeting a town in the eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 5 persons including 2 citizen women and a child as a preliminary toll, as well as the injury of 6 others in addition to the presence of people trapped under the rubble as a result of aerial bombardment by several thermobaric missiles carried out by the regime’s warplanes on residential neighborhoods in Tell Mannas town in the eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man, the SOHR also documented the death of a citizen as a result of airstrikes by the regime’s warplanes on Al-Halbah village in the southern countryside of Idlib, while it rose to 78, the number of raids carried out by the regime’s warplanes on Jarjnaz, Kafr Sajna, Al-Taman’aa, Tahtaya, Al-Tah, Al-Deir Al-Sharqi, Tell Mannas, Maarrat Hurmah, Sheikh Mustafa, Hish, Al-Halbah, the vicinity of Maarrat Al-Nu’man and Maarshourin, while it rose to 55, the number of barrel bombs dropped by helicopters on areas in Jarjnaz, Kafr Sajna, Al-Taman’aa, Tahtaya, Al-Tah, Al-Deir Al-Sharqi and Tell Mannas in Idlib countryside, and Kabana area, while it rose to 50, the number of raids carried out by the Russian warplanes on places in Jarjnaz, Kafr Sajna, Al-Taman’aa, Tahtaya, Al-Tah, Al-Deir Al-Sharqi, Tell Mannas, al-Faqea’, Maarrat Al-Sin and the outskirts of Hazarin, and the area of Kabana in Jabal Al-Akrad, also it rose to 840, the number of missiles and shells through which the regime forces targeted areas in the southern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, Latakia Mountains, and the southern countryside of Aleppo.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 3855, the number of people who were killed since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin – Erdogan agreement, until the 25th of August 2019, and they are: 991 civilians including 245 children and 176 citizen women, and they are 216 including 43 children and 42 women, and 8 of the civil defense and 5 of the ambulance team were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 79 including 16 women and 13 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 507 including 142 children, 85 women, and 5 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 110 people including 20 women and 21 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 79 citizens including 26 children and 13 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, Qamhana, Al-Rasif, Al-Aziziyah, Karnaz, Jurin, Al-Nairab Camp, neighborhoods in Aleppo city and its southern countryside, while at least 1542  fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s aerial and ground shelling including 1026 of the Jihadis, in addition to killing of 1322 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And during the period between the 15th of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 25th of August 2019, and Syrian Observatory documented the death of 4383 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 1276 civilians including 327 children under the age of eighteen and 240 women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the Russian aerial bombardment and the rocket shelling by the regime forces and the factions, and among the death toll of civilians there are 105 people including 31 children under the age of eighteen and 17 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1628  fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1061 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 1479 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the start of the Russian – Turkish truce the death of 4613 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 1359 civilians including 356 children and 254 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 106 people including 31 children and 16 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1695 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1163 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 1559 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.