22th/march/2012

Umayya for Researches and Strategic Studies

The Daily Monitoring Report

The Field Situation
- Students stage anti-Al-Assad demonstrations in the Damascus districts of Al-Zahra Al-Gadida and Harat Al-Maghariba, the Aleppo neighborhoods of Seif Al-Dawla and Al-Sukari and the Idlib district of Jisr ash-Shugur. (Asharq Al-Awsat, the Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal) oil estimated the losses incurred during September-January by about $2 billion. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Statistics

Political Stances Arab

- Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli says, "Arming the Syrian opposition is not on the cards." (Russia Today) - At the end of its first regular session, the Arab Parliament condemns the bloody violence in Syria and rejects the military and security solution to the Syrian crisis. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

21th/Mar Martyrs: 80 Martyrs in Homs: 23 Reef Dimashq: 5 Hama: 3 Der Ezzor: 2 Idleb: 1 Aleppo: 1 Lattakia: 1 Damascus: 1

The Military Situation

- Spokesman for the Syrian Revolution General Commission in Homs said Al-Assad's troops shelled the Homs suburbs of al-Qosour, and al-Bayada and Al-Waar. Thousands of refugees fled the neighborhoods of Baba Amr, Karm Al-Zeitoun, Al-Rifai, Ashira, AlAdawiya, Bab Al-Dreib, Bab Al-Siba'a and Al-Jandali had taken refuge in Khaldiyeh, the last front left in Homs district where four or five families are crammed into each house. People are also sheltering in mosques and unfinished buildings. (Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Al-Hayat, the Kuwaiti Al-Watan, the Lebanese AlMustaqbal, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian) - Explosions were heard in the Damascus neighborhoods of Rukn Eddin and Al-Qaboun. Security barricades near Palestine branch of Syrian military intelligence fire off volley of shots randomly. (Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian) - During its operations, in Rif Dimashq's Doma district, some regime's troops dissident and resort to Harasta. (Asharq Al-Awsat) - The bombing of several districts, especially the north eastern ones, in Hama is escalating. Extensive presence of snipers was reported in those districts. Government forces block all roads linking the northern and southern parties of the city. Hama's opposition activist Abu Ghazi Al-Hamawy said that Al-Assad's forces carry out publicly executed five civilians by firing squad. (Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Jazeera) - Al-Assad forces' armored vehicles broke into Al-Bara town in Jabal Al-Zawiya, Idlib, setting fire to shops and houses, pillaging people's possessions and targeting mosques. (Al-Jazeera)

International
- Commenting, on the UN Security Council's statement on Syria, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, says "I'm encouraged by the Security Council called for an immediate end to all violence". (The London-based Al-Hayat, Al-Jazeera) - Turkey calls for meeting for the Syrian opposition early next week. (Al-Jazeera) - The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses great expectations about "Friends of Syria" conference. He says that his country might consider establishing a buffer zone inside Syria to protect the civilian refugees. (Al-Jazeera) - the Chinese permanent representative to the UN praises the Security Council statement, describing it as positive step towards a political settlement of the Syrian crisis. He calls on Damascus to immediately stop violence. (The London-based Al-Hayat, AlJazeera, Russia Today) - The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov announces full support for the UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan, adding that he keeps in contact with him. (The Syrian Al-Ba'ath) - In a sharp criticism of Al-Assad, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs says, We believe that the Syrian leadership responded incorrectly to the very first manifestations of the peaceful protests. The Syrian regime commits a lot of mistakes. If AlAssad's regime fell, some regional countries will exercises great pressures for the establishment of a Sunni regime in Syria. We are worried about the fate of the Christians, Kurds, Alawites and Druze. Al-Qaeda Organization exists in Syria." (Asharq Al-Awsat, the Israeli Haaretz, the Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth)

The Internal Situation

- Some 23 citizens in Homs, including a girl and her father, martyred. Five people in Rif Dimashq, three in Hama, two in Deir AlZour and one person in Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia and Damascus were reportedly killed. (Al-Jazeera) - Young men from Homs's district Al-Rifai managed to infiltrate into the district and documented some 39 mutilated bodies scattered in roads and some houses, including a whole family of 16 people. (Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today) - Many of the injured lose their limbs because of delayed treatment. (The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal) - Director of Aleppo News Network, which defected from AlAssad's regime and joined the revolutionists, confirms that there is an electronic warfare in parallel what is going on on the ground. (Asharq Al-Awsat) - The Syrian exports retreated from $14 billion in 2010 to $7.2 billion in 2011. (Asharq Al-Awsat) - Tourism in Syria declined by 95%. The tourism sector used to secure about $6-billion income annually. (Asharq Al-Awsat) - Economic sanctions imposed on Al-Assad's regime stop exportation of about 130,000 barrels of oil per day to Europe, which deprived the regime of about $15 million a day. The Syrian minister of

A protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara Where eight journalists were killed, and many kidnapped

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