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)