A Russian combat aircraft at Khmeimim airbase in Syria being prepared for action. (Russian Ministry of Defence)
Local media reported that three children died and an unspecified number of other civilians were injured in an airstrike on Urma al Sughra village.
However, only one source – Halab News – explicitly blamed Russia, reporting the use of bunker-busting missiles.
Other sources did not apportion blame.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
In a major civilian casualty event, up to 38 civilians including as many as 11 children died and dozens more were wounded when alleged Russian or Assad regime warplanes struck a major vegetable market in the town of Maarat al Numan. Sources said that the strike occurred at 2.45pm, when the market – which also sold “motorcycles, spare parts and car accessories” – was at its busiest.
Multiple sources published images depicting widespread destruction, which reportedly resulted in severe damage to as many as 40 shops.
Many sources blamed the Assad regime. According to the Smart News Agency, “25 civilians were killed and about 50 others were injured on Sunday night [Dec 4th] following an aerial bombardment of the vegetable market in the town of Ma’arat al-Nu’man, a southern suburb of Idlib. Aircraft of the regime launched a raid on the market, with rockets, killing and wounding about 75 civilians, including five children and three women in the initial death toll”.
Syrian Human Rights Committee, also pointing to the regime, put the death toll at 35 with dozens more injured. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, the White Helmets and Syrian Press Center also attributed the event to Assad.
However, Alarabita, Homs News24 and Zaitonmag said that Russia was responsible, as did the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who reported that there were “38 civilians confirmed dead including five children and six persons from the same family including a woman”.
There was some confused reporting from the Step News Agency, who initially pointed to Russia but then to the regime.
Aljazeera and the Shaam News Network reported that both Russian and Syrian aircraft were the culprits.
The incident occured at 14:45:00 local time.
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Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Between three and eight civilians died and a dozen or more were wounded in alleged Russian or regime airstrikes on Aleppo’s Al Shia’ar neighbourhood, local media reported.
According to Arab24, “the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that three people were killed and about 12 others were injured on Saturday [Dec 3rd] by the bombing of warplanes on areas in the Al-Sha’ar neighborhood in the middle section of eastern Aleppo.”
SyriaMubasher put the death toll at eight with 15 more injured, stating that the strike targeted a gathering of displaced people.
Alaraby, Halab News Shahba Press and Syria News Desk all blamed Russia.
However, other sources including Qasioun and Ummaya Press, attributed the deaths to the regime.
Most sources put the death toll at six.
Syrianorg said that both the regime and Russia were responsible.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.
Two or three civilians including a child and a woman died and up to five more were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Orme al Kubra, according to local media.
LCCSY reported that a child and a woman died in a Russian airstrike.
Syria News Desk, however, put the death toll at three (including a child and a woman), adding that five more people were injured.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.
Several civilians died and were wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on Anadan, local media reported.
According to Halab News, “Russian enemy planes targeted the city of Anadan in the northern Aleppo countryside this morning [Dec 1st] with several raids, leading the martyrdom of several people and the injury of others – along with material damage”.
24.com also reported an unspecified number of deaths and injuries from alleged Russian strikes on Anadan.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
AleppoAMC reported that eight civilians died from “air and artillery shelling” in Aleppo’s Al Ansari neighbourhood, though it didn’t specify the culprit.
According to @friend_sy “helicopters targeted the vicinity of Zarzur hospital in Al-Ansari district in Aleppo, the only hospital remaining in the besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo, and destroyed an ambulance”.
A number of other sources said that Assad helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Al Ansari.
LCCYS reported: “By the end of Tuesday 29/11/2016 the LCCSY documented the deaths of 85 martyrs in Syria including 16 children and 10 women:
54 martyrs in Aleppo most of them killed in Russian raids on al Qaterji, al Mayssar, Bab al Nairab, Al Salheen, Karam al Beik and al Ansari”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between November 1st – 30th 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.
AleppoAMC reported that three civilians died in “air and artillery shelling” in Aleppo’s Karam al Bayk neighbourhood – but didn’t specify the culprit of the civilian harm.
According to LCCSY, “by the end of Tuesday 29/11/2016 the LCCSY documented the deaths of 85 martyrs in Syria including 16 children and 10 women: 54 martyrs in Aleppo most of them killed in Russian raids on al Qaterji, al Mayssar, Bab al Nairab, Al Salheen, Karam al Beik and al Ansari”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between November 1st – 30th 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Between four and nine civilians including a child died in alleged Russia or Assad regime air and/or artillery strikes on Aleppo’s Al Salheen neighbourhood, according to sources on the ground.
AleppoAMC said that nine had died 9 in “air raids and artillery shelling”.
LCCSY pointed towards Russia, while the Syrian Network for Human Rights attributed civilian harm to “government rocket launchers”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between November 1st – 30th 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.
