The violence of battles increased west of Aleppo and the countryside of Idlib and Al-Zenki and Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham advance at the expense of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham with fighters getting killed and captured

Fighting is still ongoing violently between Hayaat Tahrir Syria which includes the factions of Noor Al-Din Al-Zenki and Ahrar Al-Sham Movement, against Tahrir Al-Sham in areas in the western countryside of Aleppo, and the southern part of Idlib countryside, and in the details obtained by the SOHR, violent clashes are taking place in the town of Tuqad and the village of Awajal, between Al-Zenki against Tahrir Al-Sham, in conjunction with the storming of premises of human rights entity in Khan al-Assal by Tahrir Al-Sham, while the clashes resulted in the withdrawal of Tahrir Al-Sham from Jam’ayat Al-Moharabeen near Khan Al-Assal, and the clashes were accompanied by shelling of Tahrir Al-Sham on Tuqad town, causing injuries, amid clashes between both parties in the village of Rehab and Tadel in the same countryside, and in the countryside of Idlib, the clashes are raging between Ahrar Al-Sham in participation with Soqur Al-Sham against Tahrir Al-Sham in the city of Marat Al-Noman and its countryside, and Abdeen village and the town of Al-Habeet and its vicinity, and in most of the villages of Jebel Al-Zawiyah and the village of Jebel Shahshabo and Ariha area, resulted in the advancement of the attacking factions (Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham), and at least 3 fighters of the Hayaat were killed, while 2 fighters of the attacking factions were killed, and Hayaat Tahrir Syria captured large number of members of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham in the western countryside of Aleppo and the southern countryside of Idlib and managed to seize weapons and equipment.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last Saturday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored tension in the western countryside of Aleppo, between two of the largest factions operating in the area, as a result of opening fire by a patrol of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, on a vehicle as it did not stop at the checkpoint after the midnight of Thursday – Friday, it was revealed then that an Arab commander of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham was in the vehicle with his wife, where the commander was “the education official in the Department of Displaced Affairs” and held several military positions including the supervision of training those who joined the ranks of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, while his wife is still in a serious condition, and the sources asserted to the Syrian Observatory that the commander is Abu Ayman Al-Masry and he is Egyptian, and one of the commanders of the global Al-Qaeda. It is noteworthy that several battalions and brigades operating in the western countryside of Aleppo and the northern countryside of Idlib adjacent to the western countryside of Aleppo; have announced about a month ago, their integration with Nur al-Din al-Zenki Movement, the largest force in the western countryside of Aleppo, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the integration of Thowwar al-Sham Battalions, Bayareq al-Islam Brigade, Ansar al-Din Battalion, Abu al-Hasan battalion and al-Sheikh Othman Battalion, have merged with Nur al-Din al-Zenki Movement through statements by the aforementioned factions, and the this area in Idlib and Aleppo countryside witnessed violent fighting previously between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, which left tens of casualties in the ranks of the both parties.