The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The helicopters bomb the west of Rif Dimashq and clashes in Al-Suwaidaa countryside

Al-Suwaidaa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: clashes took place between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against unidentified gunmen, near Al-Tha’la checkpoint of the regime forces in Al-Suwaidaa countryside, which resulted in the death of one person in the clashes where he was driving by the area then.

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the helicopters dropped explosive barrels after the midnight of Monday – Tuesday on places in Beit Jinn Farm in the west of Rif Dimashq, while Al-Rahman Corps targeted by their heavy machineguns positions of Jaysh Al-Islam in Al-Ashari area in the Eastern Ghouta last night, which resulted in the injury of two fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam at the area of Damascus-Homs Highway, in the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, while the regime forces shelled today places in the area of Ein Tarma and Jobar, and no information about injuries, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday after the midnight, that the sporadic clashes renewed between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against fighters of Rahman Corps, in areas in the vicinity of the AlMotahalik AlJanobi from the side of Ein Tarma and Jobar, amid shelling by the regime forces on areas in al-Damari neighbourhood at the eastern outskirts of Damascus, also the regime forces opened the heavy machineguns’ fire on areas in the towns of Jesrin, Hazza and KafrBatna in the Eastern Ghouta, but no information about casualties, while a fighter of the factions was killed as a result of targeting in the vicinity of Jesrin town by the regime forces, and the Syrian Observatory published on Monday the 25th of September 2017 that explosions shook the capital Damascus and its Eastern Ghouta in the early morning of the 25th of September 2017, following starting a military operation by the regime forces in the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored intensive shelling by the regime forces by about 25 missiles believed to be land-to-land and tens of artillery and rocket shells, on areas in Jobar neighborhood and the outskirts of Ein Tarma town in the Eastern Ghouta and Al-Motahalik Al-Janobi area between them, amid violent clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them on one hand, and the fighters of Al-Rahman Corps on the other, in areas in the vicinity of  AlMotahalik AlJanobi (the Southern Bypass), as the regime forces are trying through this attack, to achieve advancement in the area, and minimize Al-Rahman Corps scope of control, in conjunction with violent clashes between the both parties in Al-Manasher area in Jobar neighborhood, and the clashes are accompanied by exchange of targeting on the clash areas between the both parties, amid achieving advancement by the regime forces in the outskirts of Damascus and the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, while the regime forces opened fire of their heavy machineguns on the areas and the towns of Arbin, Saqba, Kafr Batna and Ein Tarma, which resulted in the injury of a citizen woman.

These clashes are accompanied by violent fighting in Al-Rihan front near Douma in the Eastern Ghouta, between the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam on one hand, and the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them on the other, amid sporadic clashes between the both parties, in Haush Al-Zawahira, while areas in Douma city and the towns of Al-Nashabiyah and Beit Nayem in Al-Marj area which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, and no information about casualties was reported yet.