Ongoing clashes near the hometown of the defense minister of the regime and the regime forces try to control it and advance in the area

Hama province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the clashes are still ongoing between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions in areas in the northeastern countryside od Hama, hundreds of meters away from Al-Rahjan town, which is the main stronghold of Minister of Defense of the regime, Fahed, Jasem Al-Farij, amid an exchange of shelling on the clashes areas, where the regime forces try, with a cover of heavy shelling, to control the village of Al-Mastariha, and get closer to the town, and there is information about more human losses in the ranks of both parties.

The SOHR published hours ago that This violent clashes and the advancement reached the regime to an area hundreds of meters away from Al-Rahjan town, which is the hometown of the Syrian regime defense minister, Fahed Jasem Al-Farij, which became out of control of the regime forces in the mid of July 2014, where it was controlled by Nusra Front (Qaeda organization in the Levant) at that time, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 124 fighters from the Islamic fighters and factions, who were killed in the bombing, clashes and raids in the northeastern countryside of Hama, while it rose to more than 82, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, who were killed in the same clashes, since a month until now, while the regime forces managed to control on a large number of villages and communities; they are: Al-Shahatiya, Jub Abyad, Rasm Abu Miyal, Rasm Al-Sawy, Rasm Al-Sawani, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm Al-Tina, Abu Lafa, Marijib Al-Jamalan, Al-Kahfia, Sham Al-Hawa, Al-Raharaha, Sarha, Abul Ghar, Baghidid, Al-Musheirfa, Juyad, Hassrat, Kharbat Al-Rahjan, Hasnawi, Muweileh Shamali, Qasr Ali, Qasr Shawi, Tal Mahsar, Al-Rabi’a, Duma, Rabda, Al-Hazem and Arafah