Violent clashes continue in Hama and today’s attack kills 21 fighters, raises death toll of 16 days to 155
The violent clashes are still taking place in the countryside of Hama since the morning of Wednesday the 8th of November 2017, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the violent clashes are still taking place between the regime forces supported by their loyal gunmen against the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, in areas in the northeastern countryside of Hama, where the area witnessed hit-and-run clashed during which Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham managed to regain control of Khazim hill hours after the regime forces controlled it, while the northeastern countryside of Hama witnessed today violent clashes between both parties, accompanied by tens of airstrikes that targeted this countryside by Russian warplanes, and the violent clashes have caused the death of at least 8 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them including a colonel, as well as 13 fighters of the factions and liberation of Sham at least in clashes since this morning, raising to 155, the number of fighters and members of the regime forces, they are at least 65 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and at least 90 fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions, while tens of both parties have been injured with in these continuous clashes since the 24th of October 2017.
While the Syrian Observatory has published in the past few hours that the southeastern and southern countryside of Idlib and the northeastern countryside of Hama have witnessed the heaviest raids since the start of the pave for the advancement battles in the northeastern countryside of Hama, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the Russian warplanes carrying out more than 140 raids targeting villages, farms and residential communities in areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions in in the countryside of Hama, and in other areas in the southern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, while the violent clashes continue between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the vicinity of villages and hills of Om Khazim, Blil, al-Tlue’ and Om Trikiyyeh in the countryside of Hama, of which the regime forces managed to control them all except for the village of Om Trikiyyeh, in which the clashes are still taking place, in an attempt by the regime forces to advance in the area control-and-hold the control of the new areas.
The Syrian Observatory also published this morning that the last night witnessed the continuation of the warplanes to target the controlled areas of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and these warplanes carried out tens of strikes which targeted villages and areas in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, while the violent clashes in continuing between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, in several areas in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces stared their violent attack this morning the 8th of November 2017, and the attack concentrated in the areas of Talat Umm Khuzaim, Talat Al-Tallu’, Turaykiyah and Boleel, in which the regime forces managed to take the control of Talat Al-Tallu’ and Boleel, amid great advancement in the area of Talat Khuzaim, while the clashes are still continuing in an attempt by the regime forces to hold their control over the area, and the intensive fighting and shelling resulted in the death of members in the ranks of the both parties