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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Fighting Continues Across Syria

Heavy fighting continued throughout Syria yesterday, with Damascus bearing the brunt of it. Many of the locations on the heatmap below indicate regime bombardments and airstrikes, but in Aleppo the rebels took the offensive, with attacks on a military checkpoint near al-Safira and a fuel center.

Kinetic events  in Syria on August 31, 2013
(Map as of 23:22, Sept 1, 2013; data gathered from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) 

A closer look at Damascus shows a significant amount of fighting in the northern Barzeh neighborhood. The village of Mo’adamiyeh al-Sham, the site of one of the alleged chemical attacks of August 21st, also continues to be the target of regime bombardments.

Kinetic events in Damascus on August 31, 2013
(Map as of 23:22, Sept 1, 2013; data gathered from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)