The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

74 people were killed yesterday including 15 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, and more than 20 persons were killed in artillery and aerial shelling and other circumstances.

It rose to 12, including 1 fighter, who joined on Saturday the convoy of the Syrian revolution.

In the province of Rif Dimashq, 6 citizens were killed, one of them is a leader of the Ahrar Al-Sham Movement, who who has played a prominent role in leading the military operations against the regime forces in the Vehicle Department during the latest attack, which was started on the 14th of November 2017, and also in previous attacks against the Vehicle Department near Harasta city, he also played a key role in coordinating the tunnel detonations which targeted the Vehicle Department area in the Eastern Ghouta.  A child from the town of Madyra died affected by his injury he received in the previous shelling by warplanes on areas in the town, and 4 citizens, including a woman citizen and a child were killed by shelling that targeted the cities of Douma and Arbin.

In the province of Idlib, 4 citizens were killed. They are 2 women citizens from one families, and a child who were killed in raids by warplanes on areas in the town of Krebatikh, and a woman citizen were killed shelling of warplanes on areas in the town of Sarja.

In the province of Homs, a man and his child were killed shelling by the regime forces on areas in the northern countryside of Homs.

5 civilians, including a man and his wife, were killed as a result of shelling, believed to be carried out by the international coalition’s warplanes on areas in Hajin, east of the Euphrates and the countryside of Deir Ezzor.

3 people were killed by two explosions in the city of Idlib, near the Faculty of Law, while 2 young men died in unknown circumstances and the people accused the forces of Manbij Military Council of killing them after the forces arrested them, and dumped their bodies in an area in the vicinity of Manbij.

While at least 177 people, the death toll of members of the regime forces and the factions, who have been killed since Wednesday evening, the 10th of January, 2018. It also rose to 82, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, including 6 officers, including 3 colonels, one of them is close to Suhail Al-Hassan, and it rose to at least 95 fighters of the factions, including 6 commanders, who were killed in the same clashes. The death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured persons in serious conditions, and the factions managed to capture 31 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, in addition to tens of members of Turkestan Islamic Movement, who were also killed in the latest battles.

And 7 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen were killed in shelling and clashes against ISIS and the factions.

At least 9 fighters of the “Islamic State” organization and the factions of non-Syrian nationalities were killed in clashes and shelling of warplanes and helicopters and shelling on their areas of presence.