The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hit-and-run clash continue, and factions advance and regain control of an area in Latakia Mountains

Latakia Province:
The hit-and-run clash are still taking place between the Regime Forces Operations Room which is supervised by Russian officers and includes Russian soldiers, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and regime forces supported by gunmen loyal to them from Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities against the First Sahiliya Division, Ansar al-Sham, the Second Sahiliya Division, Jabhat Al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Levant), The Islamic Turkestan Party, The Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions in several areas at Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Latakia, amid continued intense targeting by the regime forces and Russian warplanes for the clashing places and elsewhere in the mountains, the clashes were accompanied by targeting by the factions for positions of the regime forces in the clash areas and in other areas in the mountains, amid advancement for the factions and restoring control of points in Jabal al-Akrad which they have lost this morning, and information about more casualties in the ranks of both parties.