The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daily death toll | 16 persons killed on December 24 across Syria

Further details of fatalities, documented by SOHR, can be summarised as follows:

A student in the secondary stage of education was killed by the explosion of a hand grenade that was in his possession in Al-Suwaydaa.

A civilian, driving a motorcycle accompanied by his wife and children, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, believed to be ISIS members, who arrested him on the road to Al-Tarqiyyah village in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah.

A resident of Kafr Kalbin village in the countryside of Azaz, north of Aleppo, was killed and others injured, due to family fighting between displaced people from Al-Safirah city in the countryside of Aleppo and others in the village of Kafr Kalbin.

Two civilians from Deir Ezzor countryside were shot dead by members of the Turkish border guards “Jandarma”, where their bodies were found near Syrian-Turkish borders, while trying to cross the borders via smuggling with Ahrar Al-Sharqiyah faction in Ras Al-Ain area in Al-Hasakah countryside.

A civilian from Bosra Al-Sham city eastern of Daraa died under brutal torture in regime prisons, after being arrested for ten years.

A young man killed his elder mother by mistake, while celebrating her return from the capital Damascus after receiving medication, on Al-Makif road in Abo Hamam town eastern of Deir Ezzor.

A young man was shot dead by a stray bullet fired from his cousin, after they tried to kill another person for revenge, in Zaiban town eastern of Deir Ezzor.

One person working for the security of the 4th Division was killed and another seriously injured after being shot by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle in Zakia town in the western Rif Dimashq.

Two regime soldiers were killed by snipers of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room and “Ahrar Al-Sham” movement in two separate operations on Maarat Muzhas frontlines south of Idlib and the 111th regiment west of Aleppo.

Three regime soldiers were killed in an artillery shelling by “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operation room on positions in Al-Fatera village.

Two regime soldiers were sniped by Thermal Sniper Brigade of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” Operation Room on Saraqib frontline in eastern Idlib countryside.