Syrian Holocaust Claims 3,116 Lives in April 2016, With Hundreds in Aleppo Alone

The United States said on Wednesday it had agreed with Russia to extend a cessation of hostilities agreement to include Aleppo where intense day-long violence between Syrian rebels and government forces killed dozens of people.

The State Department said the truce went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Damascus time on Wednesday, but acknowledged the fighting had not stopped.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was not surprised that fighting continued in some areas, adding both sides were working to communicate with commanders in the field.

Kerry, meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the State Department, said it was vital that both sides abide by the agreement. He called on Russia to use its influence over President Bashar al-Assad to stop the violence.

There was no immediate response from Moscow to the announcement of an agreement, but the Syrian army said it would implement a "regime of calm" in Aleppo for 48 hours as of Thursday.

The surge in bloodshed in Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the civil war and biggest strategic prize, wrecked the first major "cessation of hostilities" agreement of the war, sponsored by Washington and Moscow, which had held since February.

In battles on Wednesday between rebels and government forces in western Aleppo, opposition forces said they were forced to retreat by heavy aerial bombing.

Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, addressing a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in Aleppo, said an agreement would have been announced on Tuesday but opposition attacks in Aleppo had prevented it from happening.

"The deterioration in certain areas of Syria, including Aleppo, is a serious source of concern. The government forces are fighting off a large-scale offensive by the jihadists (in Aleppo)," he told the council.

Kerry said the United States was coordinating closely with Russia to finalize strengthened monitoring of the extension of the cessation of hostilities to Aleppo.

He said he expected a meeting of the International Syrian Support Group, a grouping of foreign ministers of European and Middle Eastern government chaired by Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, to meet within the next two weeks.

In Berlin, the German and French foreign ministers said achieving a ceasefire in Aleppo was critical to renewing peace talks.

"I believe everyone knows and can conclude that there could be no return to the political talks in Geneva if a ceasefire in and around Aleppo is not observed," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters.

In Geneva, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said the Syrian government was refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting, including many in devastated Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens had been killed on both sides in what it described as the most intense battle in the Aleppo region in a year. Government forces were reinforced by allies from Lebanon's Hezbollah, it said.

A rebel fighter said about 40 government soldiers had been killed, while rebel losses stood at 10 dead. A military source denied there had been heavy casualties in army ranks, but said dozens of civilians and many rebels had been killed.

Rebel sources said insurgents at one point captured a strategic location known as Family House, but later lost it after the government side sent in reinforcements.

A pro-government military strategist said the offensive failed to breach key army defense and supply lines in Aleppo.

During the Security Council meeting, U.N. political chief Jeffrey Feltman said a consolidated truce and greater humanitarian aid access were needed to ensure the next round of Syria peace talks - set for this month - were credible. Without progress, he said there was a "real risk of a failed political process."

"The current levels of violence in Aleppo, in particular, negatively impact the ability of the Syrian parties to engage in negotiations," Feltman said.

U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the 15-member council that life for the people in Aleppo was horrendous and they were "living under daily threat and terror."

(Additional reporting by David Alexander in Washington, Tom Perry and Suleiman al-Khalidi in Beirut, Paul Carrel and Joseph Nasr in Berlin and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Editing by Peter Cooney)

Despite the alleged truce and the data of De Mistura; 3116 were killed during the second month of it.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented death of 3116 people, during the month of April 2016, and were casualties distributed as following:

Civilians casualties:

859, including 143 persons under the age of 18, and 118 citizen women above the age of 18 were killed also follows:
– 410 including 61 children and 56 citizen women killed in raids by Syrian and Russian warplanes and regime’s helicopters on several areas of Syria, and
– 113 including 23 children and 20 citizen women killed in shelling by the regime forces and using rocket and artillery shells, and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground and snipers, and

– 28 men were killed under torture in Syrian security prisons, and
– 13 men including a young man were killed by the airstrikes of the International coalition’s warplanes, and
– 162 including 37 children and 27 citizen women were killed in targeting and mortar shells launched by the rebel and Islamic factions on the city of Aleppo and several other areas in Rif Dimashq, Hama and Idlib countryside, and

– 40 including a citizen woman executed by the “Islamic state”, and
– 3 executed by Shuhada’a al-Yarmouk Brigade and Jabhat al-Nusra , and

– 14 including a child and a citizen woman killed by the gunshot of the Turkish and Jordanian border guards, and
– 11 including three children and a citizen woman died due to poor sanitary conditions and the lack of treatment, and
– 39 including 12 children and 10 citizen women killed by targeting and shelling by the “Islamic State” on areas in the provinces of Deir Ezzor and Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria, and

– 5 including a citizen woman killed in the land of shells and gunfire from the Syrian Democratic Forces in the provinces of Al-Hasakah and Aleppo, and
– 21 including 9 children and a citizen woman killed in different circumstances like unidentified gunfire, explosions, landmines and unknown circumstances.

Fighters from the rebel and Islamic Factions and The Syrian Democratic Forces of Syrian nationality: 524

Persons defected from the regime forces: 3

The regime forces: 490

Members from the popular committees, NDF, and gunmen loyal to the regime of Syrian nationality: 395

Hezbollah fighters: 18

Fighters loyal to the regime of non-Syrian nationalities, most of them belong to the Shiite community: 87

Unidentified persons: 4

Fighters from the Islamic and rebel factions, the “Islamic state”, Jabhat Al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Levant), The Army of al-Mohajereen and al-Ansar and the Islamic Turkestan Party of non-Syrian nationalities: 736

We, in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and with the continued daily killing of the sons of the Syrian people, despite more than two months of the alleged truce, we call Mr. Staffan de Mistura International –the United Nations’ special envoy for Syria crisis– to work in earnest, with the active parties in Syria, the United States of America and Russia to really activate the truce and stop the daily blood shedding in Syria, otherwise he should resign from his position, due to his failure to achieve peace in Syria, because the blood and lives of the Syrian people are not just words in a condemning statement published in the media.

Shamiyah Front fighters prepare locally made shells before firing them towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in the old city of Aleppo

Violent and continuous clashes in west of Aleppo and more shelling target the area

SOHR, May 4, 2016

Aleppo Province:

3 persons (a man and his wife and child) were killed in bombing by warplanes over areas in Yaqed al-Adas village in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo, also warplanes targeted with heavy machine guns places in Ma’arrat al-Artiq town, and areas on the of highway Gaziantep, no information about injuries, while several explosive rounds fell on areas in Halab al-Jadidah, which injured a child, while violent clashes continue between the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic Factions in the vicinity al-Family House and al-Rashedin and the outskirts of Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a neighborhood and the vicinity of the Scientific Research area at the western outskirts of Aleppo, in conjunction with the fall of tens of shells on regime forces’ controlled areas in the western outskirts of city, and shelling by rocket shells artillery by the regime forces on the clashing areas, which resulted in the death of three fighters from factions, and confirmed information about more casualties in the ranks of both parties.

In a related development, it turned out that there are 4 children and 5 citizen women among the 20 casualties who were killed today in the shelling by the Islamic factions over areas in the neighborhoods of A’azamiyyeh, Azizia, al-Seryan al-Qadimah, Jamiliyyeh, Mogambo, Al-Masharqa, Khalidiya, Masaken al-Sabil, Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a, the vicinity of municipal palace, the area around al-Rahman Mosque , Al-Assad Suburb, Saadallah al-Jabri Square, the area around the Arab Medicine hospital, Nile Street, Teshreen Street and near the military court in the city of Aleppo, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are about 80 people injured, some of them are in dangerous situations.

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9 days of blood shedding in Aleppo kill 253 person including 80 children and citizen women

SOHR, May 1, 2016

It rose to 253 the number of civilian casualties whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the escalated bombing on the city of Aleppo for the sixth day in-a-row, and in the successive massacres carried out by warplanes and helicopters, missiles and homemade explosive cylinder, and the shelling by the regime forces on areas controlled factions in the city, since the dawn of the 22nd of April until the afternoon of the 30th of the same month,.

The Syrian Observatory documented the death of 253 civilian citizens, including 49 persons under the age of 18, and 31 citizen women over the age of eighteen years, killed in airstrikes targeted areas controlled by factions in the eastern neighborhoods of the city, and in the shelling by the rebel and Islamic factions on regime forces’ controlled areas in the western neighborhoods of Aleppo.

Among the total documented number of casualties there are 145 persons, including 19 children and 14 citizen women killed in the airstrikes carried out by warplanes on areas in several neighborhoods of Aleppo, which also resulted in the destruction of tens of homes and buildings in the targeted neighborhoods, and injured tens of people, including children and citizen women.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 100 civilians, including 27 under the age of eighteen and 17 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed when tens of shells, homemade rockets and explosive cylinders on places controlled by the regime forces in Aleppo, in addition to injuring tens of other people including citizen women and children and damaged propriety.

While 8 people -including 3 children- were killed in the bombing by the regime forces on areas in neighborhoods of Aleppo, in addition to injuring tens of other people including citizen women and children and damaged propriety.

At least 34 killed in new attacks in Syrian city of Aleppo

Violent clashes in the countryside of Aleppo, and regime’s helicopters bomb the city and shells target regime forces’ controlled areas

May 1, 2016

Aleppo Province:

Several shells launched yesterday after midnight by Islamic factions and landed on regime forces’ controlled areas in the neighborhoods of Hamdania, Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a, Bostan al-Kallab, Al-Masharqa, Baron Street and the area around the Municipal Palace in Aleppo, coincided with the fall of a number of explosive bullets on regime forces’ controlled areas in the neighborhood of al-Midan in Aleppo.

The regime warplanes bombed areas in al-Myassar neighborhood in Aleppo after midnight yesterday, but no information about casualties, while the helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the areas of in al-Castelo road, Handarat camp and Bani Zaid neighborhood north of Aleppo, accompanied by bombing by warplanes on al-Castelo road and opening heavy machineguns’ fire on areas in the road of Gaziantep north of Aleppo.

The regime helicopters dropped several barrel bombs after midnight yesterday on areas in the town of Hayan and the village of Tal Msibin in the northern countryside of Aleppo, no information about injuries, also clashes took place after midnight yesterday between the “Islamic State” against the rebel and Islamic Factions in the vicinity of the villages of Tlalin and Jarez in the northern countryside of Aleppo, while clashes took place after midnight yesterday between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against Islamic factions and Jabhat Al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Levant) in the vicinity of the al-Hader town in the southern countryside of Aleppo.

About 20 airstrikes target 10 neighborhoods in Aleppo city

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Bashar al-Assad's regime warplane bombing area in Syria

Aleppo Province: It rose to about 20 the number of airstrikes carried out by warplanes since morning on the neighborhoods of Aleppo city, which targeted the neighborhoods of Bab al-Nairab, Tariq al-Bab, Hulk, Kallaseh, Ansari, Bostan al-Qasr, al-Ma’saraniyyeh, Karm al-Trab, al-Jazmati and al-Harableh, which caused injuries and killed at least two people in Bostan al-Qasr and Bab al-Nairab.

“Even before midnight”: 44 casualties, including 15 children and citizen women within 48 hours of continuous bombardment on areas controlled by the regime forces in Aleppo

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Smoke rises after a shell fell on a building that forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad are located in, after being fired from rebel fighters in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood in Aleppo March 28, 2015. REUTERS/Rami Zayat - RTR4V9JS

Aleppo Province: It rose to 44, including 10 children and five citizen women at least, the number of people who were killed and documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights during the past 48 hour, they were killed when the rebel and Islamic Factions targeted using homemade shells places in the neighborhoods of the al-Midan, Jamiliyyeh, Al-Masharqa, Ashrafieh, Saadallah ...

22 casualties at least and more than 53 injuries when mortar shells targeted the city of Aleppo today and more than 40 raids target factions’ areas in the city

April 28, 2016 Comments Off on 22 casualties at least and more than 53 injuries when mortar shells targeted the city of Aleppo today and more than 40 raids target factions’ areas in the city

Aleppo Province: 4 civilians killed and more than 13 others were injured when the Islamic factions targeted regime forces controlled areas in Jamiliyyeh neighborhood at Aleppo, rising to 22 -including two children and 2 citizen women- the number of people who documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the bombing today at the neighborhoods of the al-Midan, Jamiliyyeh, ...

11 fighters at least from the rebel factions killed in the clashes in the northern countryside of Aleppo against The Syrian Democratic Forces and more bombing and raids on the city

April 28, 2016 Comments Off on 11 fighters at least from the rebel factions killed in the clashes in the northern countryside of Aleppo against The Syrian Democratic Forces and more bombing and raids on the city

Aleppo Province: Warplanes bombed areas in the neighborhoods al-Sekkary and Karm al-Trab in Aleppo, accompanied by the bombing by helicopters on places in the neighborhood of B’eidin and the area of al-Tal laboratory in Aleppo, while the regime forces shelled areas in the road of al-Castelo north of Aleppo, while more shells launched by the rebel and Islamic Factions landed ...

107 casualties including more than 33 children during 6 days of continued escalation of bombing on Aleppo city

April 27, 2016 Comments Off on 107 casualties including more than 33 children during 6 days of continued escalation of bombing on Aleppo city

Civilians inspect a site hit by what activists said were air strikes carried out by the Russian air force on Reef al-Mohandeseen area in the western countryside of Aleppo, Syria October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Hosam Katan

It rose to 107 the number of civilian casualties whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the escalated bombing on the city of Aleppo for the sixth day in-a-row, and in the successive massacres carried out by warplanes and helicopters, missiles and homemade explosive cylinder, and the shelling by the regime forces on areas controlled ...

16 casualties in a massacre carried out by regime’s warplane in the city of Aleppo and the “Islamic State” mobilize fighters on the outskirts of Marea

April 27, 2016 Comments Off on 16 casualties in a massacre carried out by regime’s warplane in the city of Aleppo and the “Islamic State” mobilize fighters on the outskirts of Marea

Aleppo Province: The regime forces launched a missile believed to be ground-to-ground on an area in Leiramon at the outskirts of Aleppo, while areas in the neighborhoods of Maadi, Salah al-Din and Bustan al-Qasr in Aleppo were shelled by the regime forces by missiles, also the snipers of the rebel and Islamic Factions targeted areas controlled by the regime forces ...

Aerial bombardment kills 11 civilians in Aleppo city

April 26, 2016 Comments Off on Aerial bombardment kills 11 civilians in Aleppo city

Aleppo province: 11 civilians including 2 children were killed by aerial bombardment targeted the neighborhoods of al-Hedaria, al-Ferdous, and al-Maghaeir, the number of the dead is likely to rise due to the serious injuries. Warplanes also raided al-Layramon and al-Rashdin.