The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces continue targeting areas southwest of Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces have renewed the rocket shelling on areas in Beit Jinn Farm and Mughr al-Mir town west of Rif Dimashq, also areas southwest of Rif Dimashq are witnessing renewed clashes, where the Syrian observatory published hours ago that Clashes are taking place between the regime forces backed by their allied militiamen against the Islamic and rebel factions and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham in areas in the southwestern Rif Dimashq, where the SOHR monitored the regime forces carrying out attacks targeting hills surrounding Barda’a Hills area of which they recently controlled big parts, and these clashes were accompanied by  heavy and violent shelling by the regime forces, amid an exchange of targeting in the clash areas between both parties, and there is information about human losses in their ranks, while there is information about the regime forces managing to control two hills in the vicinity of Barda’a hills, which allow them to monitor large areas in  the southwestern Rif Dimashq adjacent to the northern countryside of Quneitra.

The SOHR published days ago that the regime forces are trying through this attack to dismember what is remain under the control of the factions southwest of Rif Dimashq and separate between them, in order to force them to bow to a “reconciliation” or an agreement that ends the presence of the factions and enables the regime forces from imposing their control over them, to end the presence of the factions in the area completely near the Syrian-Lebanese border and near the occupied Syrian Golan, the violent clashes are accompanied by heavy artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces and bombardment by helicopters on a daily basis, in order to inflict the largest number of casualties and to secure the advancement of their troops.