Shelling by the regime forces targets the north-west of Aleppo leaving casualties and wounded and shells target neighborhoods in the west of the city along with shelling on its outskirts

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions rocked areas in the north-western countryside of Aleppo and other areas in Aleppo city and its western outskirts, caused by exchange of targeting between the regime forces and the factions, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the regime forces shelled areas in Kafr Hamra town north-west of the city, by a number of artillery and rocket shells, which caused material damage, and resulted in the death of a young man and the injury of 5 others with varying severity, while explosions rocked areas in Aleppo city, caused by the fall of shells on the controlled areas of the regime forces, in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahraa neighborhood at the western outskirts of Aleppo city, which caused material damage, followed by artillery shelling by the regime forces on the area of Al-Salat Al-Sina’iyyah (the Industrial Halls), but no information about injuries was reported.

And the Syrian Observatory published today, Tuesday, that clashes took place after midnight of yesterday in places near Marea area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, between the rebel and Islamic factions against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, accompanied by exchange of targeting but no information about casualties, the clashes came after 4 days of clashes took place between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions operating within the Turkish-backed forces of the “Euphrates Shield”, at the outskirts of Tadef town in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, along with targeting by the regime forces to areas in the outskirts of Al-Bab city which is located in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, which resulted in the injury of 10 persons including 4 children and 2 women, along with the fall of 2 shells fired by the regime forces on areas in the outskirts of Qabasin town in the same countryside, also the factions targeted the controlled areas of the regime forces in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, without information about casualties caused by this targeting, and these clashes come days after mobilizations by the regime forces and the Iranian forces and gunmen loyal to them in both northern and north-eastern sectors of Aleppo countryside, where the contact areas with the rebel and Islamic factions which operate in the area and most of which are supported by the Turkish forces, are located, where these mobilizations have started since the beginning of September 2018, through bringing more military reinforcements of tanks, armored vehicles and heavy and medium weapons in addition to fighters, along with the movements of the Syrian opposition of rebel and Islamic factions as well as the Turkish forces’ fortifications to their positions, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the reinforcements that began to arrive in the area since the 2nd of September 2018, of the Iranian forces the regime forces, have reached more than 5000 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab, and Asian nationalities, and tens of vehicles, armored vehicles, and tanks have spread over an areas extending from al-Shahba dam area to the contact lines with Afrin, passing through Om Hosh, Tal Rifaat, Harbel, Ein Daqneh, Menagh airport, Deir Jamal, and the surroundings of Nubl and Zahra, and areas in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, while areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo witnessed exchange of targeting between the regime forces against the factions in the controlled areas of each of them in the area, and these reinforcements also coincided with the receiving points by Jaysh al-Islam on the contact points with the regime forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo, after a consensus with a faction supported by Turkey for Jaysh al-Islam to receive the points, where Jaysh al-Islam restructured itself and reassembled its forces, while the regime forces are carrying out this mobilizations and fortification in Aleppo countryside, fearing an attack that may target their location in case the battle of Idlib was launched, for which they have mobilized more than 2000 military armored vehicle and tens of thousands of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, most of them were brought from fronts that previously witnessed clashes against the “Islamic State” organization or the rebel and Islamic factions.