1) The Syrian Arab Army conducted operations against opposition forces in multiple areas, destroying weapons and killing many gunmen including some from Chechnya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in Lattakia countryside. 2) There were conflicting reports about control of the central prison in Aleppo, while clashes occurred between opposition groups in Azaz, Aleppo countryside. 3) The opposition announced a new military coalition in Daraa while the electricity ministry said electricity was in good condition across Syria.

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Shells in Damascus .. A tunnel underneath Damascus-Homs Highway
The injured of al-Nusra to Israel
Chechen …Yemeni
Saudi People and Turkish
people in the countryside of
Lattakia
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Conflicting
reports about
the prison of
Aleppo
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Council of leadership in Daraa
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Electricity in
good condition

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Shells in Damascus ……….. A tunnel underneath Damascus-Homs Highway
Twenty four citizens including children were injured
because of shells of mortars
were fired on the houses in
Karam al-Samady and alBaath Neighborhoods in Jarmana, in addition to material
damages in the place, also a
citizen was killed by a sniper
near to the Water Unit in Harasta. Units of Syrian Arab
Army continued their operations in the countryside of
Damascus, where they found
a tunnel, its length is more
than three hundred meters
and its depth is about ten meters, includes weapons and
ammunition. In Zamalka, ten
gunmen were killed and 15
others were killed in Adraa.
Thirty gunmen were killed
surrounding the industrial region in Doma including” Taiser al-Shalit”. Units of Syrian
Arab Army advanced in Barzeh, While in Jubar an army
unit destroyed a tank rigged
with explosives northeast of
the Teachers Tower that the
gunmen were trying to take
outside the neighborhood and
killed all the gunmen inside
it. Unofficial Media sources
talked about the starting of
the Syrian Arab Army a battle” the safety of al-Sayidda
Zainab” in the countryside
of Damascus to restore the
domination on al-Hojaira,
among them Dergham Abu
Setteh, a Palestinian, Diab alMahshi and Salama al-Fare’.
The Army destroyed 3 tank
trucks and a number of cars
in al- in al-Nabek. The front
of “al-Nusra “published the
names of suicidal persons
who attacked the square of
al-Umayyad on last Sunday
who is Abou Asid al-Ansary who opened the street in
front of the second suicidal
“Abee Zaar al-Ansary “ , it
announced also that it fights
with the free army is Sasa.

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Attempts of infiltration in Aleppo ….. clashes in its countryside
In the countryside of Aleppo, fierce clashes have happened between the units of
Syrian Arab Army and the
gunmen of opposition in alSafera, while the army destroyed rocket launchers and
mortars in Kwers. The correspondent of al-Mayadeen
Channel talked about fierce
clashes between the Syrian
army and the gunmen of the
front of al-Nusra inside one
of the buildings in the Central prison of Aleppo. The
battles between the gunmen
of “ the Islamic State of Iraq
and Sham “ and “the brigade
of storm of north “ in Azaz
in the countryside of Aleppo
have renewed, causing the
killing and injuring dozens
of two parties. In Deir Ezzour, gunmen affiliated to the
Free Army and the Front of
al-Nusra targeted by heavy
weapons the headquarters
of the Syrian army forces in
a number of districts of the
city.
Conflicting reports about the prison of Aleppo
The sources of opposition rumored that the gunmen were
able to control on the central
prison of Aleppo after clashes
took place in the courtyard of
the prison and a number of
the guards were killed, other
sources denied any entering
of the gunmen to the central
prison.

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Chechen …. Yemeni... Saudi People and Turkish people in the countryside of
Lattakia
The army units killed and injured dozens of gunmen in
many areas in Lattakia countryside, the majority of them
affiliated to the “Islamic State
of Iraq and Levant” terrorist organization. A military
source said that the army targeted gunmen’s hideouts in
the areas of Dorshan, Nawwara, al-Kaber, Otaira, alFurlug and al-Amleek, killing scores of gunmen, many
of them of non-Syrian nationalities including Chechen,
Yemini ,Turkish and Saudi
Nationalities , and destroying a number of warehouses.
Among the killed gunmen
were Abu al-Motayam alSinjari, Abdul-Latif Mohammad, of the Yemeni nationality, Abu Huzayfa, Abu Omar,
of the Libyan nationality, Abu
Abdul-Rahman, Hamed Abdul-Nabi, Salem al-Khaled
and Sam’an al-Haj. The army
units also foiled an attempt of
infiltration to al-Nabi Ashe’a
Mount.
Fighting between Gunmen in Homs…and Loses of opposition in Hama and
Daraa
Dozens of gunmen were
killed during a fighting between two armed groups on
the way that connects Alsultaniah village with Salam
Gharbi in the countryside of
Jeb Aljerah in Homs, while
the clashes are still continued
between the Syrian Arab army
and the opposition gunmen in
Jorat Alsheiah ,Karabess and
Akrab in the countryside of
Homs. An official military
source said that units of the
army destroyed four bombed
cars and launcher missile in
Alarshona and Alkerija villages in the countryside of
Hama and it controlled Salam
Gharbi in the countryside of
Hama and that after killing all
the members of armed groups
,while the sources of opposi-
tion mentioned that it controlled Salam Gharbi village.
In the countryside of Daraa,
a military source talked that
the units of the army targeted
the hideouts of gunmen in
Atmman ,Inkhel ,Alhirak, the
Western Muleiha and Tafas,
where some gunmen were
killed.The gunmen targeted
with mortars the forces of
the Syrian Arab Army in the
Twelfth Brigade and the military residences in Alkuneiah
and it achieved successful
operations there ,while the
clashes are still repeated in
Alsheik Maskeen .

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The injured of al-Nusra
to Israel
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The inspection of 11 sites
The organization of prohibition the chemical weapons
announced in its statement
that the organization mission
team inspected of eleven sites
and it destroyed the equipment for producing in six
sites of the chemical weapons
in Syria. The United Nations
has appointed the Dutch Sigrid Kaag a president of the
international mission which
is responsible for getting rid
of the chemical weapons in
Syria.
The correspondent of alMayadeen reported that 106
injured persons of the front of
al-Nusra were transferred by
Israeli ambulances to the Israeli Hospital “Naharya”.
A new coalition for the The Opposition may negotiate with the Syrian government
Syrian opposition in
Syria
A number of parties and Syrian opponent political movements announced the formation of “ the coalition of
political parties in Syria,”
Yahiya Awad, the spokesman
of the coalition said in a statement that there is not any political opposition inside Syria,
except the opposition which
is close to the government
and officially licensed it.
Opponent Sources reported
the speech of Louay Safi, the
spokesman of National Coalition of the forces of the
revolution and the Syrian
opposition that the possibility of approval to negotiate
with some acceptable persons
of the Syrian government at
Geneva Conference 2, such
as Farouk al-Shara, the Vice
President of Bashar al-Assad,
stressing that the negotiations would be about handing over the power to a transitional government without
any future for the President
al-Assad in it.

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Council of leadership in Daraa
about seventy factions of the
armed opposition in Daraa
announced that they do not
admit by the “National Coalition of the forces of revolution and the opposition,”
announcing that they unit
themselves under a new military organization under the
name of “Command Council of the Revolution of the
Southern Region”.
A political party of the brotherhood of Muslims
The sources of opposition reported that the leading member
in Brotherhood Muslims group
in Syria Zoheir Salem said
that the group wait the proper
conditions to announce forming a political party and he announced that this party will not
be apolitical tool of the group,
but it will be an opened nation-
al and independent space for
all the ideas and targets with Islamic ideology, and he denied
the presence of any military
tools of the group inside Syria

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Genève 2 is in the next month
Qadri Jamil ,the Deputy
Prime Minister of Economic
Affairs announced that the
Geneva Conference 2 can
be held between 23 and 24
November, he said in an interview with Russia Today
channel that the Syrian budget losses due to the continuation of the war is estimated
at one hundred billion dollars
up to the present time.
Syria extradited Campo to the United Nations
Electricity in good condition
The Ministry of electricity
confirmed that all projects of
generation are in good condition and the Ministry does its
best to secure the electricity
to all citizens.
The ministry of foreign affairs and Expatriates extradited the Canadian lawyer
Carl Sergi Campo, the worker in the United Nations
forces to observe the separation of forces in Golan (UN-
DOF), to the permanent
representative of the United
Nations in Syria Jacobe Alholow .This worker in UNDOF was abducted by gunmen in Khan Alsheih in last
February.