The regime forces shell east of Damascus and the outskirts of the Ghouta with more than 50 missiles since today’s morning

The heavy shelling is still ongoing on the east of the capital Damascus and its eastern Ghouta, where the SOHR monitored 50 missiles, believed to be ground-to-ground, fired by the regime forces since Thursday morning the 17th of August 2017, on places in Ein Tarma area and Jobar neighborhood, and this was accompanied with the shelling of the regime forces on Ein Tarma Valley, amid continued clashes taking place between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against al-Rahman Corps in areas in the vicinity of Ein Tarma city and Ein Tarma Valley and other areas in Jobar neighborhood.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday night that the regime forces renewed their shelling targeting areas in the town of Ein Tarma and the western outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, where the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed the targeting of Ein Tarma town and its vicinity by 20 missiles believed to be land-to-land, fired by the regime forces, without information about casualties, while clashes continued between the regime forces supported by gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities on one hand, and the fighters of Al-Rahman Corps on the other, in areas in the vicinity of Ein Tarma town and the area of its valley, amid confirmed information about the ability of the regime forces to advance in buildings in the area, and increase the size of their control, with a cover of intensive shelling targeted the clash area, and information about casualties in the ranks of both parties, as a result of exchange of shelling and clashes.