Preliminary death toll for 13/2/2013: More than 200 people were killed in Syria so far today.
The dead include: 86 civilians (14 of them children), 62 rebels, 1 Iraqi rebel, 49 regular soldiers, 2 defected soldiers.
Ali Smender, the general secretary of the National Defence Front for Syria, was assassinated by rebel fighters in the Qalamoun area, by the town of al-Qara, Reef Dimashq. The rebels also killed his 2 sons, his brother and 2 other relatives during the assassination....
By province: Idlib (19 rebels, 19 civilians). Aleppo (18 rebels, 15 civilians). Damascus (1 rebel, 16 civilians all but 1 killed in Jobar by the regime bombardment). Der'a (5 rebels, 11 civilians). Homs (4 rebels, 10 civilians). Deir Ezzour (6 rebels, 5 civilians). Reef Dimashq (5 rebels, 3 civilians). Hama (1 rebel, 5 civilians). Raqqah (2 rebels, 2 civilians). Hasakah (1rebel).
2 defected soldiers were killed by clashes and gunfire in Hama and Reef Der'a.
An Iraqi fighter was killed by wounds from clashes with regime forces on the Salamiya-Homs road yesterday.
49 regular forces were killed by explosions, rocket attacks and and clashes: 16 in Aleppo, 8 in Idlib, 5 in Homs, 9 in Der'a, 6 in Damascus and Reef Dimashq, 5 in Hasakah.
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There are reports that no less than 10 civilians were killed by the bombardment on the Karm al-Trab neighbourhood of Aleppo and the village of Terkan in Reef Aleppo.
