The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from two explosions at the Miami and Gabriel restaurants in central Qamishli had risen to sixteen, with more than thirty wounded. Some remained critically injured, so the toll could rise. The restaurants stood on the tourist street near predominantly Christian Al-Wusta neighborhood.
Multiple sources told the Observatory that a man entered Miami restaurant carrying a bag that exploded inside. It was unclear whether he died in the explosion or left the bag and escaped. Gabriel restaurant was tens of meters from the government-controlled security compound in Qamishli.
One person died from injuries sustained in Wednesday’s airstrikes on Khan Sheikhoun. Another, from Maarat Al-Numan in eastern Idlib countryside, was killed in strikes by aircraft believed to be Russian on Khan Al-Subul.
Islamist and other armed factions shelled Foua and Kefraya in rural Idlib, towns besieged by those factions and Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch. No casualties were reported. A fighter from Jisr Al-Shughur in western Idlib was killed in clashes around Burj Al-Qasab in northern Latakia with Lebanese Hezbollah and government forces supported by National Defense Forces, Baath Brigades, and pro-government Syrian and foreign fighters.
In Aleppo province, a car bomb on the outskirts of Azaz killed one person and wounded two. Armed factions struck and disabled a government tank at Zaytan in southern Aleppo countryside, with reports of government casualties. A faction fighter was killed battling ISIS in Dahleh village in the north. The deaths of four Islamic Front fighters in clashes with the Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Aleppo were also documented.
Fighting continued between Kurdish People’s Protection Units and ISIS around a village near Ain Issa in northwestern Raqqa. ISIS captured it in an attack on Ain Issa during the previous 24 hours, accompanied by at least two vehicle bombings.
The Observatory learned that ISIS executed a young man in Al-Mayadin in eastern Deir Ezzor by throwing him from a building near Al-Saeed Hospital after accusing him of homosexual activity.
The Observatory also reported that ISIS executed two people, including a child under sixteen, by throwing them from a building on Al-Takaya Street in Deir Ezzor on the same accusation. It said a member threw a victim down and another shot him after he struck the ground. Separately, aircraft conducted twelve strikes over the previous 24 hours on buildings inside Al-Omar oil field, causing destruction and material damage, with no casualty information. Two girls and a boy were killed in airstrikes on Al-Buleil in eastern Deir Ezzor on Wednesday afternoon.
In Hama province, armed factions destroyed a government heavy machine gun at Al-Buwaida in the northern countryside, with reports of government casualties.
Aircraft carried out dozens of strikes on a salt factory, the area around a hospital, and locations in the east, north, and center of a city that ISIS had controlled since May 20, 2015. The attacks brought the death toll from strikes on the city and surrounding areas over the previous two days to fifteen, including a woman, with reports of others killed and additional wounded. The source does not name the city in this paragraph.
Government forces and loyalist fighters clashed with Islamist and other factions around Tir Maalah in northern Homs countryside while government forces shelled the village; no casualty details were available. Fighting also continued around the eastern and western Rawabi Al-Tahin areas southeast of Homs between ISIS and government forces and allies, after the latter advanced and captured parts of the area. A government defector from Homs’s Baba Amr neighborhood was killed by government shelling of Al-Ghariyah Al-Gharbiyah in rural Daraa.
A girl died from wounds sustained in airstrikes on Arbin. The death toll from strikes on Douma in Eastern Ghouta rose to five, including three children, two from one family. The toll could increase because some wounded were in critical condition and people remained missing beneath rubble. A child and another person were killed by shells fired by Islamist factions into Dahiyat Al-Assad. Helicopters dropped further barrel bombs on Darayya in Western Ghouta, killing at least one and injuring others. Government forces also shelled Hazrama and Al-Nashabiyah in Eastern Ghouta and areas around Zabadani, with no injuries reported.
Shells struck Bab Touma in central Damascus without reported casualties. A female government fighter died from wounds sustained in a bombing on the twentieth of the month targeting a bus carrying female personnel on the road between Al-Muwasat Hospital and the prime minister’s office. Her death brought the number of female fighters killed in that attack to two.
At least ten Islamist and other faction fighters, including an Islamist movement’s military commander, were killed in fluctuating battles around Sheikh Miskin in Daraa against government forces and Syrian and foreign allies. Four National Defense Forces members and several government troops were also killed. Fighting continued around Al-Manshiyah in Daraa city, where government forces had advanced, with reports of casualties on both sides.
A government-force member was killed in clashes with Islamist and other armed factions around Sheikh Miskin.