After 28 months of losing it, the regime forces and their allies reach the outskirts of Abu Al-Duhur Airbase after controlling tens of villages within days
With the continuation of clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and Islamic factions, in the southern countryside of Abu Al-Duhur area in the eastern countryside of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces and their allies achieving a new advancement and controlling a village enabled them to reach the outskirts of Abu Al-Duhur Airbase, less than 5 km south of it, of which the regime forces failed to reach from the south of Aleppo area, where the regime failed forces in their operation –which were started on the 2nd of November 2017– to enter the eastern countryside of Idlib or reaching Abu Al-Duhur Airbase, due to the stand up of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of targeting by helicopters and warplanes for areas in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Idlib Province, in an attempt by the regime forces to pave the last kilometers which will get them to the airbase; of which the regime forces have lost at the end of the first third of September 2015, after a violent attack by al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in the Levant) and supporting factions against the airbase and they managed to control it. This evening, the regime forces controlled al-Jabriya village and extended their control to 93 villages, since the 25th of December 2017, the date of the start of escalation after the Brigadier Suhail Al Hassan took the command of operations in this area, expanding the control of the regime forces and their allies in the countryside of Hama and Idlib, since the start of operations in both areas on the 22nd of October 2017 to 132 villages and towns, and they are: “al-Jabriya, Khariba, Rasm Al-War, Harmla. Al-Ouja, Tel Al-Ouja, Karaten Kabira, KAratin Saghera, Surouj, Adlya, Warida, Rasm Hamida, Rabia, Stablat, Haradana, Ajaz, Khirbet Abu Aniya, Khirabt Yashout, Abu Tahiha, Farja, Mardaghana, Al-Juhman, Al-Daoudiyah, Raba Al-Hawa, Abu Al-Aleej, Jab Al-Qasab, Maksar Al-Fouqani, Maksar Al-Tahtani, Bashkun, Nabaz Qabli, Nabaz Shamali, Jadida, Ramla, Sinjara, Sera’, Sarie, Kafria, Al-Mutwasta, Khayyara, Sarja Sharqiya, Um Al-Halalil Um Mwailat, Al-Sheikh Barak, Hawa, Tel Amara, Al-Lubaida Al-Sharqia, Al-Nasriya, Fahil, Jalas, Um Rajm, Al-Niha, Tel Umm Al-Khalakhil, , Mushyrifa Al-Gooan, Um Sahrij and its station, Al-Daribiya, Mushrifa Shamaliya, Al-Lwaibda, Rasm Al-abd, Swairat, Shakfa, Um Rajm, Fahil Jalas, Rabia Mousa, Al-Hakiya, Al-Qasr Al-Abyad, Al-Hamdiniya and its stations, Al-Nasriya, AbuOmar, Tel Marq, Atshan, Tel Zaater, Al-Gadoia, Al-Salumiya, Al-Khawin, Al-Zaror, Sham Al-Hawa, Um Al-Khalkhil, Qabibat Um Al-Hoda, Tel Aswad Ras Al-ain, Tel Tawila Mahmoud, Umm Haratin, Tel Al-Maktaa, Al-Maghara, Al-Tama, Al-Dajaj, Al-Mushayrifa, Abu Dali,Al-Hawia, Tel Al-Syriatel, Al-Shatib, Um Trikiya, Rajm Al-Ahmar, Al-Zafriya, Al-Bulail, Um Khazim, Abu Al-Ghar, Baghdid, Abu Lafa, and Al-Mushayrafa, Al-Shahtiya, al-Mestriha, Jub Abyad, Rasm Abu Myal,Rasm Al-Swan, Rasm Al-Sawy, Abu Al-Ghar, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm al-Tina, Jawiad, Hasrat, Kharbat Al-Rahjan, Hasnawy, Mwailah Shamali, Qasr Ali, Qasr Shawy, Tel Mahsar, Al-Rabia, Douma, Rabda, Al-Hazm, Arafa, Marijib Al-Jamlan, Al-Khafiya, Marijab Al-Jamlan, Sham Al-Hawa, Al-Rehraha, Sarha.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the ongoing displacement of people, amid bad and difficult humanitarian conditions, where hundreds of families are living in the open and in the cold, while the artillery and missile shelling is still ongoing in areas in the countryside of Idlib, and the SOHR monitored in the countryside of Idlib citizens living in houses made of plastic, which are originally used for planting vegetables and plants, so as to flee the cold and the rains, while more than 150 thousand civilians from areas and towns of Abu Dhuhur area and the areas of Sinjar, Saraqeb, and the countryside fi Mae’rt Al-Noaman and the southern countryside of Idlib are, with the displacing people from the northern and northeastern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Aleppo, to the center and north of Idlib, where the civilians are trying to flee with their families to areas far from death and killing, amid bad humanitarian conditions and acute shortage in areas with this number of displaced people and no enough food to meet their needs.