Top Stories

• US and France announce the return of their Ambassadors to Damascus.

• Assad’s regime is preparing for a crackdown to end all opposition before the signing of the fact-finding mission protocol.

• Regime forces lay havoc to universities in Damascus and Lattakia.

Top Videos

• Homs: Assad’s forces commit a massacre at Khaled Bin Walid mosque, P2 +18

• Baba Amr, Homs: A new baby born dies due to the shelling of civilians’ homes

Summary of Events

US State Department said that US Ambassador Robert Ford will be returning to Damascus after he was pulled out for security concerns. Ford has angered the regime by publically voicing his support to the revolution, attending many demonstrations and meeting with opposition figures. The regime reacted by dispatching Baath militias to attack his convoy and the US Embassy. France made a similar announcement, declaring that French Ambassador Eric Chevallier has returned to Damascus after he was recalled for security concerns.

Regime forces killed at least 34 civilians today. Assad forces have mobilized the Fourth Armoured Battalion to lay siege to the suburbs of Damascus and Daraa, Republican guard to the Damascus suburbs of Ghouta Sharqiya, militiamen and an armoured brigade to Homs, and the Seventh Armoured Battalion to Idlib. This mobilization comes after the regime issued orders to end all forms of opposition in Syria in less than a week, before the Arab League fact-finding mission protocol is signed. On another note, the toll of Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria is starting to show, as many residents of Baalbak in Lebanon and the Southern Suburb in Beirut are complaining against the discreet burial of dozens of bodies returned from Syria.

In Lattakia, Alawite students working with the regime have been attending lectures and classes armed with handguns and knives. Many of them have recently started cancelling classes and forcing students out on pro-Assad rallies, while forcing their professors to grant them high grades. At Damascus University, news spread of kidnappings and rapes of students at the Medicine Faculty.

In Homs, security forces shelled and opened heavy machinegun fire in the neighbourhoods of Baba Amr, Jorat Arayes, Karm Zaytoun, Jab Jandali, Bayada, Deir Baalba, and Khaldiya. More reinforcements were brought in that include dozens of tanks and armoured units. Massacres continue as eight new corpses were delivered to the village of Zafran of men kidnapped on the previous day. Assad’s militiamen also kidnapped three girls from the neighbourhood of Hay Ashira and took them to an unknown location. As usual, night demonstrations broke out in the neighbourhoods of Waar, Qosur, Deir Baalba, Bayada, Khaldiya, Karm Shami, Inshaat, Baba Amr, Jorat Arayes, Ghouta, Hamra, Dablan, Karm Zaytoun, Bab Draib, Bab Houd, and Hay Shammas; and the cities and villages of Houleh, Palmyra, Qasir, and Qaryatain. Assad’s forces brought in over 100 tanks and 120 trucks filled with soldiers and militiamen in an attempt to end these demonstrations in less than a week.

Revolution Statistics

Syrians killed: 4,984
Children killed: 314
Females killed: 210
Missing: +50,000
Protestors killed under torture: 177
Protestors currently incarcerated: +59,000
Syrian refugees since March: +16,577
Refugees in Turkey: 10,227
Refugees in Lebanon: +4,000
Refugees in Jordan: +2,000
 
International Reactions
Clinton sees Syrian opposition, US envoy returns to Damascus

‎UAE calls for Syria reforms

‎Arab League calls meeting on Syria demands

Jordan hails Arab Resolution on Syria

Russia is ready to assist on Arab resolution

‎‎‎Selected Media Coverage

‎US Department of State: Remarks at meeting with Syrian National Council

Upcoming Events

December 7: Tripoli, Lebanon

Student sit-in in solidarity with the Syrian people
 
December 10: Manchester, UK
An evening of celebration for Syria
 
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An evening of celebration for Syria
 
December 10: Canada

Charity dinner in support of the Syrian people

Videos

Damascus

Barzeh: Student demonstrators demand the ousting of Assad

Maidan: Student demonstrators chant support for the cities under attack

Mashro’ Dummar: Evening demonstration demands the execution of Assad

Shagour: Evening protest demands the overthrow of the regime

Damascus Suburbs

Daraya: Schoolgirls take to the streets chanting for the fallen heroes

Saqba: Heavy deployment of Assad’s troops in the town

Harasta: Protesters demand the ousting of Assad chanting “we only kneel to God”

Hammouriya: Evening demonstration chants for freedom and demands the ousting of Assad

Jobar: Demonstrators chant against Assad and his dead father

Homs

Ghouta: Funeral procession of fallen hero Zeyad Taybani

Za’farana: Student demonstrators demand the execution of Assad

Khaldiya: The devastating aftermath of shelling civilians’ homes

Daraa

Kherbet Ghazaleh: Student demonstrators demand the overthrow of the regime

Masefra: Demonstrators chant against the Assad-loyal Syrian Army

Inkhel: All-women demonstration chants against the crimes of the Syrian regime

Tesil: Demonstrators condemn the failure of the Arab League to impose sanctions on the Syrian regime

Hama

Hamidiya: Demonstrators chant against Iran and Hezbollah, P2

Idlib

Marat Masrin: Humanitarian aid heads towards the disaster-impacted town of Jabal Al-Zawiya

Bab Al-Hawa: Deployment of military tanks to terrorize civilians

Kafartakhrim: Student demonstrators chant for freedom and demand the overthrow of the regime

Central City: Student demonstrators call for a Turkey enforced buffer zone

Hass: Assad’s mercenaries open fire at school children

Maarat Noman: Women and children demonstrators demand the overthrow of the regime

Deir Azzour

Central City: Evening demonstration at the house of fallen hero Nihad Kharaba

Quriya: Student demonstrators demand the execution of Assad

Hasaka

Salehiya: Evening demonstration sings for the Syrian revolution
Mayadin: Evening demonstration demands the execution of Assad
Central City: Demonstration at the house of fallen hero Nihad Kharaba
Quriya: Evening demonstration chants support for the cities under repression
 
Demonstrations Abroad

Qatar: Protesters remove Assad’s photo from the Syrian Airlines office in Doha

Canada: Demonstration by the Syrian community in solidarity with the Syrian revolution