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89 Syrians Killed, Hundreds Injured in Drone Attack on Military College, 8 Killed in Turkish Drone Attack, 15 Killed in Government Shelling on the Northwest

October 6, 2023

 

Syrian military academy, October 5, 2023

 

The death toll of the attack on the military academy rises to 89, including 31 women and 5 children, injuries reached 277, according to the Ministry of Health

SANA, October 6, 2023

الصحة: ارتفاع عدد شهداء الاعتداء الإرهابي على الكلية الحربية بحمص إلى 89 شهيداً

2023-10-06 ، دمشق - سانا

أعلنت وزارة الصحة في حصيلة غير نهائية، عن ارتفاع عدد شهداء الاعتداء الإرهابي الذي استهدف حفل تخريج طلاب ضباط الكلية الحربية في حمص إلى 89 شهيداً منهم 31 من النساء و5 أطفال.

وأشارت الوزارة في إعلانها على قناتها الرسمية في التلغرام إلى أن عدد الإصابات بلغ 277 إصابة.

وكان وزير الصحة الدكتور حسن الغباش أوضح أمس في اتصال مع القناة السورية أنه فور وقوع الاعتداء الإرهابي الجبان استجابت منظومة الإسعاف لتؤدي واجبها، حيث استنفرت جميع المشافي المدنية سواء التابعة لوزارة الصحة أو لوزارة التعليم العالي، وكذلك المشفى العسكري، مشيراً إلى أن وضع الجرحى متفاوت الخطورة، كما أن الكوادر الطبية جاهزة ومستنفرة لتقديم جميع المستلزمات الطبية والجراحية المطلوبة، واستطاعت الإحاطة بجميع الإصابات.

الصحة: ارتفاع عدد شهداء الاعتداء الإرهابي على الكلية الحربية بحمص إلى 89 شهيداً – S A N A

Number of martyrs from the terrorist attack in Homs rises to 80-health Minister

5 October، 2023

Damascus, SANA-

Health Minister, Hasan Ghabbagh announced on Thursday that the death toll from the terrorist attack  on the graduation ceremony of the Military Academy cadets in Homs has risen to 80, among them 6 women and 6 children.

“The number of injures reached nearly 240 in initial data,” the Minister told Syria TV in a telephone call.

Earlier, the Minister assured and inspected the health cases of the injured.

Mazen Eyon

Number of martyrs from the terrorist attack in Homs rises to 80-health Minister – Syrian Arab News Agency (sana.sy)

Several civilians, cadets and military men martyred in a terrorist attack that targeted a graduation ceremony at the Military Academy in Homs

5 October، 2023

Damascus, SANA-

Several martyrs of civilians and military personnel, and dozens were injured in  a terrorist drone attack while they were at a graduation ceremony in Homs, according to a statement by the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces.

“As a part of their criminal method and continuing to shed Syrian blood, armed terrorist organizations supported by well-known international parties, targeted afternoon a graduation ceremony for military academy cadets in Homs with drones carrying explosive ammunition immediately after the ceremony ended,” the statement reads.

It added “The aggression resulted in the death of several civilians and military personnel in addition the injury of dozens of the invited families, as well as several participating students.

The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces considers this act an unprecedented criminal one, and affirms that it will respond with full force and determination to these terrorist groups wherever they are, and stresses that the planners and executors will be held accountable, the statement concluded.

Several civilians, cadets and military men martyred in a terrorist attack that targeted a graduation ceremony at the Military Academy in Homs – Syrian Arab News Agency (sana.sy)

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Raising the number of civilian fatalities to 15 in 24 hours

Regime bombardment on HTS-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo kills and injures 12 civilians

SOHR, On Oct 6, 2023

SOHR sources have reported that four civilians, including three children, were killed and seven others were injured in heavy artillery fire by regime forces, which targeted positions in Darat Izza city in north-western Aleppo.
 
Similarly, a woman was killed in regime artillery fire on Mantaf village in Idlib countryside.
 
Moreover, regime forces renewed their bombardment on Kafr Ammah and Kafr Nouran in Aleppo countryside and Sarmin, Sfuhen, Al-Faterah and Banin in Idlib countryside.
 
Accordingly, the number of civilians who were killed since yesterday, Thursday, October 5, in regime bombardment in different positions in HTS-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo countryside has increased to 13. In addition, 37 other civilians were injured in regime bombardment during the same period.
 
On the other hand, a child was killed in artillery fire by factions of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room on Jurin town in Hama countryside.
 
Also, a civilian was killed in rocket attack by the factions on Nebl town in the southern countryside of Aleppo.
 
Accordingly, the number of fatalities in areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions and adjacent areas controlled by regime forces has increased to 15 civilians in 24 hours.
 
The civilian fatalities in regime bombardment on HTS-held areas in the past 24 hours are distributed as follows:
 
A man in Al-Mawzarah village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah.
 
Two children and a man in Jisr Al-Shughour city.
 
A woman in Ariha city.
 
A man and a child on the outskirts of Idlib city.
 
A child in an area on the road between Sarmin and Idlib.
 
A woman in Mantaf village.
 
Four civilians, including three children, in Darat Izza city.
 
 Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 289 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 445 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 219 combatants and 143 civilians, including 14 women and 32 children, injured.
 
The fatalities can be distributed as follows:
 
45 civilians, including five women, 15 children and a civil defence member, were killed by regime forces.
 
310 members of regime forces, including 19 officers.
 
An Afghan militiaman of “Liwaa Fatemiyoun.”
 
A member of the Syrian Hezbollah.
 
67 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, including a French jihadist.
 
13 members of the jihadist faction of “Ansar Al-Tawhid.”
 
One member of “Ahrar Al-Sham” movement.
 
Two members of “Al-Sham Corps.”
 
One member of “Hurras Al-Din” organisation.
 
The Commander-in-chief of Russian Special Tasks Forces.
 
A militiaman of the Iranian-backed “Liwaa Al-Baqer.”
 
A member of “Soqour Al-Sham.”
 
A member of the “National Liberation Front.”

Raising the number of civilian fatalities to 15 in 24 hours | Regime bombardment on HTS-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo kills and injures 12 civilians - The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (syriahr.com)

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Turkish aggression targets Qamishli and Amuda power stations, stops Alouk water station

5 October، 2023

Hasakah, SANA-

Qamishli and Amuda power stations were out of service as a result of the Turkish occupation attack that targeted them this afternoon.

“The two stations, which supply large areas of the governorate, have been out of service as a result of the damage they sustained as a result of the Turkish aggression, the Director General of Hasakah Electricity Company Salih Idris confirmed in a statement to SANA, indicating that the company is waiting for the situation to stabilize to inspect the stations and know the extent of the damage before it starts repairs.

Idris added that the Amuda power station was out of service, causing the Alouk water station to stop water pumping to the people of the city of Hasakah due to the power outage.

Turkish aggression targets Qamishli and Amuda power stations, stops Alouk water station – Syrian Arab News Agency (sana.sy)

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Shelling in northwestern Syria kills at least 5 civilians, activists and emergency workers say

By Associated Press Published October 5, 2023 

By GHAITH AL-SAYED and KAREEM CHEHAYEB

IDLIB, Syria (AP) —

Activists and emergency workers say the Syrian government has shelled a village in the rebel-held northwestern part of the country, killing at least five civilians. The shelling early Thursday came amid a rise in strikes in the rebel-held enclave in recent days. Opposition-held northwestern Syria’s civil defense organization known as the White Helmets said the shelling on the outskirts of the the village of Kafr Nouran in western Aleppo province hit a family house.

Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included an elderly woman and three of her daughters and her son. Northwestern Syria is mostly held by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al Sham, as well as Turkish-backed forces.

Shelling in northwestern Syria kills at least 5 civilians, activists and emergency workers say - KESQ

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Eight killed in Turkish air strikes on Kurdish-held zone in Syria, war monitor, security source says

BEIRUT, Oct 5, 2023 (Reuters) -

At least eight people have been killed in Turkish drone strikes on Thursday on the Kurdish-held zone of northeast Syria, a war monitor and a local security source said, following Ankara's threats against Kurdish military facilities in Syria and Iraq.

Two were killed in a strike on a car near a military facility and another six were killed in a later strike on a military post near the town of Amuda, the security source told Reuters.

Turkey said Wednesday that all Kurdish militant facilities in Syria and Iraq are valid targets after it concluded that two attackers who detonated a bomb in front of government buildings in Ankara last weekend had come from Syria.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed force dominated by the Kurdish YPG and which spearheaded a years-long campaign against the Islamic State group, has denied the bombers came through territory it controls.

SDF head, Mazloum Abdi, said on Wednesday in a post on the social media platform X that Turkey was looking for "pretexts" to carry on attacking SDF-held areas.

Aladdin al-Ali, an aid worker running a camp for displaced people in northeast Syria, said relief organizations "suspended their work and left" following a strike near the camp.

Ankara has frequently carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against the outlawed PKK militia, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union, and the United States.

It has also carried out several cross-border incursions into Syria targeting the YPG, which it views as a terrorist group affiliated with the PKK.

Editing by Bernadette Baum, Alexandra Hudson

Eight killed in Turkish air strikes on Kurdish-held zone in Syria, war monitor, security source says | Reuters

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Syria says Israeli airstrikes in an eastern province wounded 2 soldiers

Syrian state media has said that the Israeli military carried out airstrikes in a strategic eastern province, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage

ByThe Associated Press October 3, 2023, 12:57 AM

BEIRUT -- 

Syrian state media said Tuesday that the Israeli military carried out airstrikes in a strategic eastern province wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. There was no comment from Israel on the reported strikes.

Syria’s state news agency, SANA, quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airstrikes late Monday targeted military positions in Deir el-Zour.

The eastern Dair el-Zoar province that borders Iraq contains oil fields and has been a strategic province throughout Syria’s conflict, now in its 13th year. Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area and have often been the target of Israeli war planes in previous strikes.

Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activist collective Dair Ezzoar 24 said the airstrike targeted positions in the Boukamal region along the Iraqi border, a stronghold for Iran-backed militia groups. Both said they could not identify the source of the airstrike.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years, including attacks on the airports in the capital of Damascus, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations. The strikes often target Syrian forces or Iranian-backed groups.

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At least 100 killed in drone attack on Syrian military academy

Reuters October 5, 2023

BEIRUT, (Reuters) -

At least 100 people were killed on Thursday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponised drones bombing the site minutes after Syria's defence minister left a graduation ceremony there.

It was one of the bloodiest attacks ever against a Syrian army installation, and unprecedented in its use of weaponised drones in a country which has faced twelve years of civil war.

Civilians and military personnel were killed in the attack on the military academy in the central province of Homs, Syria's defence ministry said in a statement, adding "terrorist" groups had used drones to carry it out.

The statement did not specify an organisation and no group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Syria's defense and foreign ministries vowed in written statements to respond "with full force" to the attack. Syrian government forces have carried out heavy bombing attacks on the opposition-held zone of Idlib throughout the day.

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Syria's defence minister attended the graduation ceremony but left minutes before the attack, according to a Syrian security source and a security source in the regional alliance backing the Damascus government against opposition groups.

"After the ceremony, people went down to the courtyard and the explosives hit. We don't know where it came from, and corpses littered the ground," said a Syrian man who had helped set up decorations at the academy for the occasion.

Footage shared with Reuters through the messaging app WhatsApp showed people - some in fatigues and others in civilian clothes - lying in pools of blood in a large courtyard.

Some of the bodies were smouldering and others were still on fire. Amid the screaming, someone could be heard shouting "put him out!" A spray of gunfire could be heard in the background.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 people were killed and 125 injured. The source in the alliance backing Syria's government said the toll was around 100.

Syria's conflict began with protests against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011 but spiralled into an all-out war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced.

The Syrian army has been gutted by the fighting, and relied heavily on military support from Russia and Iran as well as Tehran-backed fighters from Lebanon, Iraq and other countries.

Assad regained most of the country, but a swathe in the north bordering Turkey is still held by armed opposition groups, including hardline jihadist fighters.

Reporting by Laila Bassam, Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Kinda Makieh and Maya Gebeily; editing by Jon Boyle, Mark Heinrich, David Gregorio, Alexandra Hudson

At least 100 killed in drone attack on Syrian military academy | Reuters

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Death toll update: Nine civilians among 60 fatalities, mostly officers, in airstrikes by unknown drones targeting graduation ceremony in Homs

SOHR, Oct 5, 2023  

Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that the number of deaths in airstrikes by unknown drones on the military school in Homs has exceeded 60. According to SOHR sources, nine civilians, including a woman and a little girl of the officers’ relatives, were among the deaths.
 
In addition, 120 other people were injured, tens of whom sustained serious injuries.
 
According to SOHR sources, a violent explosion targeted crowds of people, shortly after the end of a ceremony marking the graduation of a new batch of officers, attended by their families. This coincided with the flight of drones over the region.
 
The Injured people were taken to the military hospital in Homs city, Al-Basel hospital, Al-Ahliah hospital and Al-Razi hospital, amid unconfirmed reports on the death of some of them, affected by their injuries.
 
Earlier today, reliable SOHR sources confirmed that seven regime officers were killed and over 20 others were injured in violent explosion, which was caused by airstrikes by drones that attacked a graduation ceremony in the military school in Homs.
 
Ambulances were seen rushing to the site of the attack to transport the injured officers to the military hospital.
 
It is worth noting that regime forces were seeing the graduation of a new batch of officers in the military school, where the ceremony was attended by commanders of the Syrian army and the regime Minister of Defence.

Death toll update | Nine civilians among 60 fatalities, mostly officers, in airstrikes by unknown drones targeting graduation ceremony in Homs - The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (syriahr.com)

17th attack since morning:Turkish drone targets power plant on Al-Hezam Al-Gharby road in Al-Qamishli

SOHR, Oct 5, 2023

Al-Hasakah province:

A loud explosion was heard on Al-Hezam Al-Garby road in Al-Qamishli due to an attack by a Turkish drone on the power plant near the COVID hospital in Al-Qamishli, along with the flight of Turkish aircraft over the region. However, no casualties have been reported yet.
 
Accordingly, the number of Turkish air strikes during the recent Turkish escalation on SDF areas, following the threats of the Turkish Foreign Minister Haqan Vidan, increased to 17 in SDF areas, resulting in ten deaths and five injuries. The air strikes in detail:
 
-Three Turkish war bombing targeted an SDF facility and a financial headquarters in Mushayrifah area, and the “Military Rahbah” industrial zarea, near Washokani camp in Al-Hasakah countryside, resulting in the injuring of three of the facility’s workers.
 
17th attack since morning | Turkish drone targets power plant on Al-Hezam Al-Gharby road in Al-Qamishli - The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (syriahr.com)

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