The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daily death toll | 17 persons killed on March 20 across Syria

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

A member of National Defence Forces died affected by the injury he sustained today due to the explosion of an old landmine in Al-Beshrei desert in western Deir Ezzor countryside, bringing the number of deaths due to the explosion to two.

A drive was killed and two members of military police were injured due to the explosion of an IED planted earlier by unidentified individuals in a car near a military checkpoint at the entrance of Al-Ra’ei city within “Euphrates Shield” area which controlled by pro-Turkey factions in northern Aleppo countryside.

the bodies of two members of the “National Defence” militia were found, after losing contact with them yesterday evening while they were delivering food and drink to military posts in Jub Al-Jarrah district in the eastern countryside of Homs, where they were killed by “ISIS” members.

A young man was killed and another was injured, after being directly shot by Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma”, on March 18, while they were trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border from Azmarin town in the northern countryside of Idlib, seeking a safe haven outside the country.

Othman Bin Affan brigade, affiliated with “HTS”, carried out an infiltration operation against regime positions in Al-Kabinah frontline in the northern countryside of Latakia, within “Putin-Erdogan” area. Accordingly, armed clashes, with heavy and medium weapons, erupted between the two sides, which resulted in the killing of five regime soldiers and the injury of three others who were taken to the hospital for treatment.

A young man from karki Dajweer Village in Al-Malkiya countryside was shot dead by the Iraqi Border Guards at borders between Syria and Iraq in an area near Tel Kojar northern of Al-Hasakah

A child was killed and 12 other people were injured including at least a child and three members of the Internal Security Forces, due to the explosion of an IED that hit the car of a member of the “Traffic”, when approaching to dismantle the IED in Abo Hilal Street in Al-Sarb Neighbourhood in the centre of Manbij City eastern of Aleppo within areas of Manbij Military Council that belongs to SDF.

A member of the regime forces was killed on a military frontline in Sahl Al-Ghab in Hama countryside, under artillery shelling by factions of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” Operation Room on the region.

Israeli forces targeted a young man while he was near the borders at Al-Ma’alaka Village in Al-Qonaitara countryside and he was injured, before an Israeli unit infiltrated the area to arrest him on Monday and returned him on the next day as a dead body.

A child was killed in Al-Awlashly Village in Manbij countryside, during exchanged shooting between forces of Manbij Military Council on one hand and Turkish-backed factions on the other hand in “Euphrates Shield” area, coinciding with celebrations of Nowruz.

A young man was killed by his family, where he was hit on the head with an iron, tied up by his mother, sister and brother before his brother strangled him to death inside their house in Lattakia.