In conjunction with the Astana meetings… war is wide opened against Fateh al-Sham Front after three years of similar war against the “Islamic State” organization

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that tensions continue between the major factions in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, where reliable sources confirmed to the Observatory that the sounds of clashes were heard in the area between the Batbo junction and Hazano on the administrative border between the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, as a result of the fighting between Jaysh al-Mujahideen against Fateh al-Sham Front, where the road was closed to prevent the civilians from passing to the clash areas, while residents in Maarrat Misrin area in the countryside of Idlib have blocked the road leading to the western countryside of Aleppo and the administrative border with Idlib; to prevent the convoys of Fateh al-Sham Front from passing towards the area and widening the scale of clashes between both of them, amid an angry demonstration by residents of Killi town which is near the clash areas, where the demonstrators called for the necessity to stop the fighting between both parties, also local sources informed the activists of the Syrian Observatory for human rights that clashes took place on the outskirts of Kafr Nabl due to the mutual arrests between the Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham and Fateh al-Sham Front in the area, while the Faction of Soqur al-Sham brigades expelled Fateh al-Sham Front from all their headquartered in Benin and left them one checkpoint on the outskirts of the village located in the northwest of Maarrat al-Nu’man in the southern countryside of Idlib, also Fateh al-Sham Front were expelled from the village of Hantutin in the northwest of Maarrat al-Nu’man and from positions near the northern outskirts used to be controlled by Fatah al-Sham by Faction of Soqur al-Sham brigades as well, also the last mentioned controlled with Ahrar al-Sham the town of Ihsim in the countryside of Idlib, after controlling sites and headquarters of Fatah al-Sham in the town.

Also many reliable sources confirmed that the attack (which took place this morning by Fateh al-Sham Front on al-Halazon area near Batbo area the weight center of Jaysh al-Mujahideen)  was accompanied by cutting the telecommunication by Fateh al-Sham Front, also SOHR received confirmed information about the death of 5 persons of the same family -most of them are children and citizen women- in the fall of a shell as a result of the ongoing clashes in al-Halazon village between Jaysh al-Mujahideen against Fatah al-Sham, also an exchange of arrests took place between Jaysh al-Mujahideen and Fateh al-Sham Front in Marshourin in the eastern countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man, amid the control of Fatah al-Sham on Anadan, Kafr Hamra, Khan al-Asal, Huraytan, Kafrnaha and Urem al-Kubra in the western, northwestern and northern countryside of Aleppo, after their attack on the headquarters of al-Shamiyyah Front (Levant Front) there, while the people of towns and villages of Babkeh, Kafrnuran, Kafr Halab and al-Jinah called that their villages and towns should be away of fighting which is taking place between the major factions in Aleppo and Idlib.

It should be noted that Jaysh al-Mujahideen was formed in early January 2014 by the union of “Nur al-Din Al-Zenki Brigades, al-Ansar Brigades, Fastaqim Kama Umirt Union, The Islamic Hurriyyah Brigade, Amjad al-Islam Brigade, Ansar al-Khelafah Brigade, The Islamic Movement of al-Nur, Jund al-Haramain Brigade, and other factions” to fight the “Islamic State” organization in Aleppo, Idlib and other areas in Syria, also these clashes came after three years of similar attack that took place in Aleppo, Latakia and Idlib by Jaysh al-Mujahideen and other factions against the “Islamic State” organization, which ended with the expelling of the organization out of the provinces of Idlib and Latakia and the northern countryside of Hama and Aleppo city and other parts of Aleppo province, and the northern countryside of Hama and several other areas of Syria.