June 18th, 2012

Umayya for Researches and Strategic Studies

The Daily Monitoring Report

Military Situation
- Al-Assad's firing squads killed five people in the Hama suburb of Al-Nasr, and five others in the village of Zahrat Al-A'asi in Hama's countryside.
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Statistics June 17th Martyrs: 60

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ment forces in the vicinity of the Deir Al-Zour town of Baqras.(2)(4) - Al-Assad's helicopters bombarded the Latakia rural towns of Acco and Teima.(2)(4)

- Two civilians and a Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter were martyred during clashes with the regular forces in different districts of the city of Homs. Six others were also martyred by Al-Assad troops' bombing and gunfire against Homs's rural towns of Talbisa and Al-Rastan.(2)(4) - At least 16 elements of the Assad troops were killed during fierce clashes and targeting military convoys in Daraa, Deir Al-Zour's countryside, Homs, Aleppo's north countryside and Latakia's rural areas.(2)

Internal Situation
- Three members- out of 9 of the executive office of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus- submitted their resignations from the membership of the office in the union. They also declared disavowing all decisions and negative statements issued by the union without their knowledge, saying that they cannot stand playing the role of false witnesses in such a paralyzed and corrupt organization anymore.(2)

Asharq Al-Awsat The London-based Al-Hayat (3) The Kuwaiti Al-Watan (4) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (5) The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal (6) The Syrian Al-Baath (7) Reuters (8) AFP (9) The Qatari Al-Jazeera (10) The Israeli Haaretz (11) Washington Post (12) wall Street Journal (13) The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth (14) The Guardian (15) The Telegraph (16) Russia Today (17) Lebanon Now (18) AP

Political Mobility
- Activists of Homs say about 85% of Homs's areas are now under shelling and bombardment by mortars and heavy machine guns, and dozens of injured people are left without treatment after the Shabiha (proAssad militias) controlled all hospitals.(6)(7) - Nedal Al-Hakem, an activist from the city of AlRastan, says most of the population of Al-Rastan fled the city to neighboring villages, as the city suffers power and water cuts. Al-Hakem pointed out that some of the martyrs, who were killed during the shelling, have not been buried yet, as the shelling also targeted cemeteries.(2)(4) - A person was killed in Damascus's countryside town of Mesraba by gunfire, and another one in Kaft Batna. A 17-year-old boy was martyred after the Assad security forces raided his home in the Damascus town of Daraya and threw him from a fifth floor apartment.(2)(4) - Five people were martyred in Deir al-Zour, one of them was commander of a Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigade, and was killed during clashes with the Assad troops, while the other four people were killed after the regular forces attacked a funeral in the town of AlBulil. Violent clashes between the FSA and govern- British Foreign Secretary William Hague calls on - Abdul Basit Sida, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), said that the international community has lost confidence in the Assad regime, noting that the Syrian regime lost control over many major Syrian cities. He also called on "the Friends of the Syrian People group" to move alone with a view to saving the civilians in Syria in case the UN Security Council failed to adopt any resolution due to the veto.(2)(4)(6) - In its statement described as being "historic", the National Coordination Body for the opposition Democratic Change Forces inside Syria held Al-Assad's regime responsible for the current dangerous bloody track in Syria. It also blamed the increasing violence, the spread of massacres and killing crimes and hateful sectarian sedition- that aims at serving dirty political goals, most important of which is aborting the revolution and tarnishing its image- on such a regime.
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the international community to work together with a view to forcing the Syrian regime to fulfill its pledges, noting that the UN Security Council is currently considering its available options.(6) - Russian President's Foreign Policy Assistant Yuri Ushakov said that the American president Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would discuss today (Monday) the horizons of "peaceful settlement" in Syria, as Russia wants one thing only in Syria which is establishing internal peace so that the Syrian people can determine their future "democratically", he added. He also said that disagreements between Russia and the United States concerning a settlement in Syria are "tactical disagreements rather than strategic ones,".(2) - The American "Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper considered the United Nations (UN)'s step to suspend the U.N. observers' activities in Syria -because of the rising violence there- as the first step towards formulating an international plan of action with the aim of dealing with the Syrian crisis.(2)

Politcal Stances International

This Report was issued by Umayya for Researches and Strategic Studies, and it contains pure news that do not reflect an opinion. Edited by Abed Alrhman Alsarraj