Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Ramadan Death Count Round Up (July 8th, 2015)

(Syria) The head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence branch, Nadim Shalah, was found shot in the head in his car Wednesday morning in Damascus.

Five members of a family were killed when a rocket crashed into their home in the northeastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Wednesday.

A drone strike as part of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants killed a senior figure from the hardline group in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Wednesday. The strike killed an Uzbek leader of the group involved in security as he sat in a car outside a downtown hotel, the Observatory said.

(Algeria) Authorities say ethnic clashes over two days have left at least 22 people dead around Algeria's southern oasis city of Ghardaia, prompting the president to call an urgent security meeting Wednesday.

(Yemen) At least 70 soldiers were killed and 200 others wounded in a Saudi air strike on the position of the headquarters of the Yemeni 23rd Mechanized Brigade in al-Abr, Hadramawt province, near the border with Saudi Arabia. Some reports claim that soldiers were attempting to defect.

Ramadan death toll is now at 4,708.