echoed by the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC), an anti-Assad group monitoring the war, who also said Assad forces had targeted rebels in northern
Latakia province and fired mortar shells in
Homs province.
Syrian state media
reported that rebels in the Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus had fired rockets on residential areas. However, the LCC said clashes occurred after Assad forces had attempted to storm the area,
“shelling it with missiles.”
Additionally, the Syrian Civil Defense reported artillery strikes in
countryside south of Damascus, and
mortar strikes in Hama province, carried out by Syrian state forces. Credit: YouTube/Syrian Civil Defense">