The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Intensive firepower paves the way for regime forces to advance further north of Aleppo, while Russian jets bomb the western countryside

SOHR activists have monitored ongoing fierce clashes on Sheikh Oqail frontline in the northern countryside of Aleppo, between regime forces and loyalists on one hand, and opposition factions and jihadi groups on the other.

Regime forces unleashed an attack under a cover of intensive firepower on factions positions, along with intensive Russian airstrikes on the vicinity of Atareb, Tqad, Jam’eyyat Al-Sallum, Jam’eyyat Al-Rahal, Al-Saharah, the outskirts of 111th Regiment in the western countryside of Aleppo.

On the other hand, cautious calm is prevailing throughout Idlib province.

Yesterday, regime forces to captured Urm Al-Kubra town and Jam’eyyat Al-Radwan in the western countryside of Aleppo, after intensive aerial and artillery firepower, bringing the number of areas captured in the southern and western countryside of Aleppo in the past few hours and days to 76: Khan Tuman, warehouses of Khan Tuman, Al-Khalidyah, Rajam, Hazmer Hills, Kherbet Kharas, Tal Al-Zaytun, Maarata, Al-Rashideen fifth sector, Zammar, Jazraya, Othmaniyah Kaberah, Talafeh, Tal Tabarez, Maharem, Khawwari, Al-Qal’ajiyah, Khalseh, Zitan, Berneh, Al-Huwayr, Abad, I’jaz, Sheikh Ahmed, Tal Karatin, Al-Zahiryah Farm, Al-Aaseriyah, Mak-hala, Rasm Al-Ward, Um Atabah, Rasm Al-Eis, Rasm Saharij, Jib Al-Kas, Bans, Al-Eis, Al-Eis Hill, Al-Kusaybiyah, Al-Bawabiyah, Al-Talhiyah, Tal Haddiyah, IKARDA, Al-Salihyah, Al-Barqum, Al-Zarbah, Al-Kammari, Al-Kalariyah, Kafr Halab, Al-Qanater, Kherbet Jazraya, Miznaz, Al-Rashideen 4th sector, Zaid neighborhood, Abu Shlim, Tal Klayriyah, Khan Al-Asal, Arbikh, Sheikh Ali, Arradah, Arnaz, Al-Muhandiseen first countryside, Kafr Jum, Zahrat Al-Mada’en, Al-Shameko, Al-Muhandiseen second countryside, Al-Sawma’a roundabout, Urm Al-Sughra, Urm Al-Kubra, Jam’eyyat Al-Radwan, the 46th Regiment and other positions and hills in the area.