Syrian war takes 170,000 lives over 40 months

The Syrian conflict has claimed more than 170,000 lives in 40 months claimed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London. The Syrian army continued its advance on Aleppo rebels against different foci in the country snatching the insurgents big cities and major arteries linking them to the capital.

The epicenter of the fighting between the regime and the rebels two weeks ago focused on the northern outskirts and east of Aleppo, north of the country, where 50 people under fire and rain barrels bomb thrown died days ago Syrian aviation. After three years of fighting, the regime launched a harsh military operation to retrieve the second largest city of Syria and economic center.

Syrian soldiers have managed to gain control of strategic industrial complex Sheikh Nayar (northeast of the city) trying to seal the fence around fighters Facing Nusra (excision of Al Qaeda) and Liwa Al- Tawhid group trying withstand the rams. “The army is catching up and the men of Al Nusra are cornered in the north and northeast of Aleppo. The city center is more or less quiet and under control and in a couple of months will control the entire periphery of Aleppo “claimed the phone a militia allied to the Syrian Army who prefers not to reveal his name.

As it did in Damascus and Homs, the army of Bashar Assad continues the same strategy trying to encircle the rebels in order to strangle pathways both food supplies and ammunition and push for a surrender of the rebels. For several months, the Syrian Army also surrounds the last pocket of insurgents in the eastern outskirts of Damascus, in the YUBAR. ” It will be a matter of months, but may not have what to eat or how to shoot, it will be held. Duma remains the main terrorist base [ as the Syrian regime describes all the different rebel factions ] on the outskirts of Damascus. Raqa is the only provincial capital controlled by the terrorists of the Islamic State and then just north of Homs, Aleppo and northern part of Deraa [ in the south ] is in rebel hands. Basically control more than 70% of the country. Launch operations in all these areas to finish them. ” This was the balance that was just a month ago this newspaper a colonel in the Syrian army map in hand in front of the Damascus suburbs.

In recent months, the Syrian regime has recovered -and that with the support of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah – west corridor from all Kasab (Syrian town in the north to the Turkish border) to the south of the border with Lebanon. However, the fight was rekindled last week west of Syria where some 700 rebels had withdrawn to the mountains which separate Lebanon from Syria simultaneously fighting against Hezbollah and the Syrian Army. According to the Lebanese local press in the last week Hezbollah would have lost 10 of his men and captured 14 rebels in the region of the Bekaa, east of Lebanon.

While Hezbollah fighter on the ground, the Syrian aviation does from the air intensified shelling on Lebanese territory, leaving one dead and 11 wounded. Shiite villages in the Bekaa eco fighting were made with a trail of funerals announced during the weekend. It is estimated that Hezbollah, which also fights in Aleppo by the Syrian regime has lost 500 of his men in Syria.

The setback dealt the rebels by the Syrian Army in the last year has dramatically reversed the balance on the ground. In late 2012 the rebels were advancing towards the gates of Damascus and the regime of Bashar al-Assad is tottering. Last week, a defiant Assad again trod the red carpet to swear on the Koran as president for a third term of seven years. ” Soon we will see Arab, regional and Western countries that support terrorism, pay a high price ” claimed in his speech.

The price paid by the Syrian people by 170,000 lives, 56,000 were civilians (including 9,000 children) 65,000 46,000 Syrian soldiers and rebel fighters. These shocking numbers indicate humanitarian disaster with half of the Syrian population (12 million people) forced to leave their habitual residence, six million IDPs and three of Syrian refugees scattered in neighboring countries adds. After advancing Syrian Army, international agencies begin to raise the colossal challenge of rebuilding a future Syria withers.

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