Monitor: Syria Rebels Rain Rockets on Shiite Villages
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syrian rebels, including al-Qaida-affiliated fighters, have fired hundreds of rockets and mortar shells on two besieged Shiite-majority villages in the northwestern province of Idlib, a monitor said Tuesday.
At least seven people were reported killed in the shelling by the Army of Conquest alliance on the regime-held villages of Fuaa and Kafraya on Monday and Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It was unclear if the victims were civilians or government troops, the Britain-based monitor said.
Hundreds more were wounded in the bombardment.
Fighting continued around the two villages on Tuesday, with opposition forces including al-Qaida affiliate Al-Nusra Front battling regime forces and fighters from Hizbullah.
Al-Nusra, like many of Syria's extremist groups, considers Shiite Muslims to be heretical.
The escalating clashes prompted concern in Damascus, where pro-regime militiamen and their families from the two villages held demonstrations asking to be sent there to defend them.
Most of Idlib province, including its provincial capital, is now held by fighters from the Army of Conquest and other rebel groups after a sweeping offensive earlier this year.
Fuaa and Kafraya are among the few remaining outposts of regime control in the province, and are now completely besieged.
The Army of Conquest began an attack against the villages on July 15, saying it was retaliation for a regime offensive on Zabadani, the last rebel-held bastion along Syria's border with Lebanon, earlier this month.
It said the attack would "give you a taste in the north of what our people are tasting in Zabadani".
21 July 2015, 10:57
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Hezbollah the terrorist party is raining thousands of rockets on Zabadani while Assad has dropped more than 600 barrel bombs in the last 10 days.
21 July 2015, 10:58
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the attack would "give you a taste in the north of what our people are tasting in Zabadani".
21 July 2015, 11:27
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lately hizbushaitan losses have been increasing exponentially.
if things keep up this way, this terrorist iranian militia will implode from within soon.
21 July 2015, 13:08
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Do not start crying, when the Syrian Airforce retaliates on your salafi gatherings.
21 July 2015, 13:18
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People must understand March 14s mentality in order to understand them, March 14 wants their own freedom fighters ISIS & Nusra to "liberate" Lebanon of Hezbollah.
The "Christians" of March 14 hopes they can make some kinda deal with Saudi Arabia and Hariri for partition and protection from takfiri attacks. This is the reason Lebanese Forces and Kataeb backs Saudi Arabia, plus it makes profit ofcourse.
21 July 2015, 18:43
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@mystic, are you by default so brainy in analysis or did it take years of practise?
21 July 2015, 18:45
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Mystic - you have neither ethics or intellect. You are the echo of a drum that keep talking nonsense. Rather than condemning attacks on all civilians, you justify the murderous attacks by Assad on civilians by referring to them as 'your salafi gatherings'. As for your idiotic nonsense, from which pit do you come up with them?
21 July 2015, 22:02
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Syria was fine without suffering before the war.
Then came your heroes with their fake democracy and wahabi values.
22 July 2015, 04:11
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"Syria was fine..." 3anjad? I doubt you had ever set foot in Syria then. By your logic Iraq was fine and dandy under Saddam.
21 July 2015, 13:47
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bless anyone person, entity, brigade, organization or country that inflicts pain and suffering, death and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its supporters, members, or followers wherever they maybe.
21 July 2015, 18:48
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The Hizb is bad but IS is worse. We should be careful what we wish for. We need a strong democratic state with a strong army and not militias fighting over what remains to 'save' this group or the other.
22 July 2015, 08:13
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Uber-tonto: I took 'shiakiller' to task twice because of his 'name'!!! Because you are a hypocrite, do not assume everyone else is.
21 July 2015, 11:21
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Lemme get this straight, so four years after the start of the war these shiite town were unharmed untill the Iranian shiite hezb decided to liberate zabadani. Yep hezb the protector, and I got a wonderful iron tower for sale located in central Paris France. It's an old family heirloom yeah, and I can give to you on the cheap what do you say hassan? Call abbas I'll show you guys postcards of it and a photo of me standing next to it proof that I own it, yeah.
21 July 2015, 11:52
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flamethrower.... don't you ever get tired of making 50 accounts per day?!
21 July 2015, 13:54
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Ebola has ruined and destroyed National Unity and Coexistence.
Ebola has the intention to create an Islamic Republic.
What do you expect Christians, Sunnis, Druze and Free Shias to do???
21 July 2015, 14:00
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Masticato...Northern...Not-mowaten and al...
do you have an answer to these facts?
21 July 2015, 14:36
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If they wanted an Islamic Republic it would've been done a long time ago humble. Your allies though wants to be part of Baghdadis caliphate.
21 July 2015, 22:15
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texas, have you been to Traplus lately? ISIS flags and Nusra flags appears everywhere up there. Aswell in many Akkar towns.
22 July 2015, 00:59
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What the heck are you typing now texas? I mention the Al Qaeda flags in Tripoli, and you start on about marathons.
Go to the main square inside Tripoli and there will be lots of those Qaeda flags.
Don't deny it, because then you never been there. Or you just favor lying as always.
Sure there are Resistance flags in da7iye just like there are flags of Geagea in Acrafieh and Nusra/ISIS in the North.
21 July 2015, 18:29
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What are they doing in the mountains above Jezzine???? Above Tannourine??? Above Sannine???
They are playing with fire....
21 July 2015, 20:07
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مصدر عسكري لبناني: الحرس الثوري الإيراني ينشئ غرفة عمليات في البقاع لإدارة المعارك والعمليات العسكرية في الزبداني
22 July 2015, 00:29
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Yes you will even support ISIS and Nusra to remove us all gabby14, that is no surprise to me.
You are very humane.
22 July 2015, 08:03
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total savages, what more to expect from a bunch of wahabi man eating carnivores?
