The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Rocket shelling by the regime forces targets the countryside of Hama and Idlib

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces shelled yesterday night places in the vicinity of Morek town in the northern countryside of Hama, while military operations continue in the eastern countryside of Hama, where the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities continue in areas in the eastern countryside, in an attempt to control more areas and expel the “Islamic State” organization of the area, where the violent clashes are concentrated in the village of Rasm al-Awabed in the Uqayribat Township, and confirmed information about more casualties and injuries in the ranks of both parties.

The SOHR published on the 11th of September that it learned that the organization managed to control Uqayribat town, which is its main stronghold in Hama after days of fighting, in which the organization managed to carry out repel, consecutive and violent attacks against the regime forces that had controlled the town days ago, and the clashes are accompanied by car bombs and suicide bombs of ISIS members, while the regime forces started their violent attacks in the area in an attempt to restore it from the organization, amid heavy artillery and missile shelling and airstrikes targeting the clash areas, and the regime forces managed yesterday to impose control over the power station and two villages in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah, within the continued fighting aimed at ending the presence of ISIS in Hama province.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more casualties in the ranks of both parties, where it documented the death of more than 228 ISIS members including 21 members who blew up themselves with booby-trapped vehicles and explosive belts, while it rose to 101, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, who were killed in shelling and clashes since the morning of Saturday the 3rd of September 2017 until the 11th of September 2017.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information that the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern countryside of Hama is keeping bodies and wounded of Russian forces who were killed and wounded in the eastern countryside of Hama, where the Russian forces are looking them, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of more members in the ranks of both parties.

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces targeted using shells places in the village of Al-Taman’aa in the southern countryside of Idlib, no information about injuries until the moment.