The Assad regime forces resumed shelling villages and towns in rural Aleppo and Hama with suicide drones, amid an ongoing military escalation that has led to civilian casualties and displacement.
Local activists reported that regime-controlled suicide drones targeted the town of Dara Azza in western Aleppo on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Syria TV noted that the regime launched several suicide drone attacks on the village of Kafr Amma in the same region, along with renewed strikes on the nearby town of Taqad. Additional drone strikes targeted the outskirts of the villages of al-Haluba and al-Ankawi in the al-Ghab Plain of Hama, causing material damage but no reported casualties.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that three civilians were injured and multiple vehicles were damaged in a suicide drone attack on Taqad in western Aleppo on Monday. The previous day, heavy artillery and suicide drones targeted several towns and villages in southern Idlib.
The Syrian Response Coordination Team reported that since the beginning of 2024, regime forces, along with Russian and PYD terrorist militia, have targeted 57 facilities and infrastructure sites in northwestern Syria. The attacks have claimed 26 lives, including two women and eight children, and left 79 people injured, among them 14 women and 18 children. The highest number of incidents occurred in Idlib with 39 attacks, followed by 18 in Aleppo.
The Syrian Civil Defense warned of an impending humanitarian crisis and further displacement, especially as winter approaches, amid the ongoing military escalation in the region.
The Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) strongly condemned the attacks on civilians, calling on the international community to take decisive action to stop the regime’s continued crimes. The SOC also criticized the lack of effective international response, which emboldens the regime and its allies to commit further violations against international laws that prohibit targeting schools and other educational facilities.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
