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AMMAN, May 4 (KUNA) -- Over 28 Syrians, civilians and fighters, were killed in Monday's fierce clashes between the Syrian regime forces and the opposition fighters, announced the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
It reported that the fierce clashes continue between the two sides across the war-torn country amid reports about advances made by the opposition forces in Idlib and Damascus countryside.
In northern Aleppo province, SOHR reported that at least 17 people were killed, including a child, and several others injured when rockets fired the opposition forces fell in several regime-controlled populated neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, three people, including a woman, were murdered and many others critically wounded when regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on residential areas in the southern province of Daraa, SOHR stated.
In Damascus, SOHR noted the death tally of the bombing attack which targeted a senior commander of the Syrian army jumped to six, the three assailants and three of the guards of the army commander who was reportedly wounded in the attack.
At least two fighters, one from the opposition and one from the pro-government militias, were killed in the raging heavy clashes in Qalamoun neighborhood in Damascus countryside. (end)
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