19 children killed in Syrian civil war, the death toll rose to 19 when six civilians including several children were among 19 people were killed on Thursday in the fiercest clashes in Syria’s Daraa province since it was recaptured by the government, from the American backed militia.
Artillery shelling by regime forces on the village of Al-Yadudah, northwest of Daraa city, killed a woman, her child and three other youngsters, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Regime artillery fire also killed a sixth civilian in the district of Daraa Al-Balad further south, according to the Observatory. The deaths bring the toll for Thursday’s clashes to a total of 19 across the province, which is located in southern Syria.
The figure includes at least eight Syrian regime fighters and five gunmen affiliated with former opposition groups, the monitor said.
The Russian-backed Syrian army and allied forces recaptured Daraa from rebels in 2018, a symbolic blow to the anti-government uprising born there in 2011.
State institutions have returned but the army still has not deployed across the whole province, and tit-for-tat bombings and assassinations between former opposition figures and regime forces have since become routine.
Terrorist groups targeted with shells the National Hospital
Terrorist groups targeted with shells the National Hospital and the citizens’ homes in Daraa city.
A local reporter said that the American backed terrorist groups, positioned in Daraa al-Balad neighbourhood, targeted neighbourhoods in Daraa city with shells, one of which fell on the National Hospital and damaged equipment and supplies in the Renal Department.
The reporter pointed out that a mortar shell fell in the al-Sahara neighbourhood, adjacent to Daraa al-Balad, causing material damage to properties.
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