The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daily death toll | 21 persons killed on August 21 across Syria

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

13 members of HTS were killed in a Russian airstrike on a military position of HTS at Kurin Junction on the outskirts of Idlib City, where a group of members were buried in Abin Sama’an Village in western Aleppo countryside.

SOHR sources reported that the chief of the local council in Al-Kafrah town died affected by the injury he sustained on August 19 during armed clashes between two families in Al-Kafrah town in eastern Azaz city in northern Aleppo countryside.

A young man died after being assaulted and beaten by “thugs” in Al-Khalidiya Neighbourhood in Aleppo City.

A young engineer from Talsanon Village in Tartous countryside died due to an explosion, while he was on his motorbike in a neighbourhood in Tartous City.

A 63 years-old female doctor was found strangled to death inside her house in Al-Juwaikhat Village in western Homs countryside.

A member of the Internal Security Forces was killed after being shot by gunmen who are believed to belong to ISIS, where the gunmen stormed his house in Al-Sabha Town eastern of Deir Ezzor in SDF-held areas, before the gunmen fled to an unknown destination.

An officer ranked captain, who hails from Arkaya Village in western Homs countryside, was shot dead by members of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operation room in Lattakia countryside.

Two people were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Rif Dimashq.