8 casualties and tens of wounded in the intensive raids which targeted the southern countryside of Idlib province

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the number of casualties is increasing in Idlib province where it rose to 8 persons at least including a displaced man and his wife in addition to a child girl, the number of those who were killed in Al-Tah town and Khan Shaykhun city, including 6 persons from Khan Shaykhun, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of about 45 wounded including children and women most of them are in Khan Shaykhun city, and some of them have seriously injured, and this bombardment which is the most violent one in months, comes along with the eruption of a round of clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the vicinity of Atshan area, in the south-eastern countryside of Hama at the administrative border with the north-eastern countryside of Idlib, amid exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties, which resulted in the fall of confirmed casualties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime’s helicopters dropped more explosive barrels and the warplanes carried out more raids on Idlib countryside, were it rose to about 46, the number of raids which targeted the southern countryside of Idlib in conjunction with dropping more than 67 explosive barrels by the helicopters, where the intensive bombardment which is unprecedented one since the last bombardment about a month ago on Idlib province, which targeted areas in Khan Shykhun city and the towns and villages of Sukayk, Al-Tah, Al-Taman’aa, Tel A’as, Um Jalal, Tahtaya and other areas in the southern countryside of Idlib, while this aerial bombardment comes less than a month after regime’s airstrikes by helicopters targeted areas in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, at the beginning of the second of July 2018, following a violent attack by the Islamic factions on the regime forces in the northern Mountains of Latakia, adjacent to the western countryside of Idlib, and intersected sources suggested to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these strikes on the southern sector of Idlib, and the return of the aerial bombardment to the area, were the beginning of a military operation by the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in Idlib Province, after an operation took place months ago during which they controlled tens of villages and towns in the southern countryside of Idlib with the support of Russian Forces, and reached the eastern countryside of Idlib and Abu al-Duhur airbase, before the Turkish Forces were deployed in several areas in Idlib province, the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, and areas connected to the foothills of Latakia mountains.