The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After its successive withdrawals, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham continues its counteroffensive and restores at least 23 areas in Idlib countryside and west of Aleppo

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of clashes in areas in the western countryside of Aleppo, in a continuation of the counteroffensive carried out by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham on sites of Nour al-Din al-Zanki, in order to restore the areas it lost in the past days, and the Syrian Observatory learned that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham managed to re-control more villages and areas, where they re-control Orem al-Soghra, Sheikh Aqil, KafrKarmin, Rif al-Mohandesin, Tadil and the Regiment 46 in the western countryside of Aleppo, raising to at least 23, the number of areas restored by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham with the support of the Islamic Turkestani Party in the northern countryside of Idlib and western countryside pf Aleppo, and in the same context, the cautious calm prevails the clash areas in Idlib Province, except for sporadic clashes in areas in Jabal Al-Zawiyah, between Soqur al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham against Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham.

The Syrian Observatory published hours ago that Areas in the Syrian north witness ongoing clashes for the tenth day on a row, within the abolition war between the major factions of the Syrian north, and the SOHR monitored in the province of Idlib the ongoing counter attacks by Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham in areas they lost days ago in favor of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham and Sukor Al-Sham, where the violent battles are ongoing between both parties, amid ongoing advancement by Tahrir Al-Sham, where it has regained control of Zradna, Ram Hamdan, Hazra, Kafryahmoul, following clashes between them that resulted in the withdrawal of Ahrar Al-Sham and Sukor Al-Sham from it, and there is information about field executions carried out by Tahrir Al-Sham to members of Ahrar Al-Sham in Hazra, and the advancement of Tahrir Al-Sham resulted in the return of Tahrir Al-Sham in the western countryside of Aleppo, after the Hayaat lost on the 27th of February 2018, its presence in the western part of Aleppo province, where Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham withdrew suddenly from all of its controlled areas in the western section of Aleppo province, and head where they withdrew from the Regiment 46, the first and second countryside of Al-Mohandessin, Tadil, Sheikh Ali, Kafr Halab, Kafr Nasih, Kafr Karmin, Al-Tawameh, Al-Sahara, Kafrnaha, Khan Al-Asal, Al-Muhamiyyin countryside, after they withdrew yesterday from Darat Izza, Taqad, Batabu, Qalaat Sam’an, Jabal Sheikh Barakat, Kafr Nasih, Basratun, Uwayjil and other areas in the western countryside of Aleppo, thus, the presence of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham was completely end in the western countryside of Aleppo, and almost completely in Aleppo province, where the presence of Tahrir Al-Sham is confined to local fighters in the southern countryside of Aleppo of the people of the area, located in areas in the southern countryside of the province.

 With these advancement in the north of Idlib and the their entry to areas and towns of Kafr Aleppo, Al-Tawama Kafr Noran, Marata Al-Na’asan, Mayzanaz, Hajez Al-Qanatar in the western countryside of Aleppo, Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham backed by members of Islamic Turkestan Party would regained control since yesterday until the moment 17 areas, which are Zardana, Ram Hamdan, Hazra, Kafryahmoul, Marata Masreen, Tarmaneen, Telada, Qah, Akirabt, Kafrolseen, Atma, Deir Hassan, Al-Tawama, Kafr Nora, Marat Al-Na’san, Mayzanaz, Hajez Al-Qanater, Refinement 46, and there is information about regaingin control about Hazano town. The SOHR published hours ago that abolition war completes today the tens consecutive days of its violent clashes and military operations between the major faction of the Syrian South, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of the violent fighting between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement and Suqour Al-Sham, in areas in the northern countryside of Idlib this morning, where the clashes are concentrated in the vicinity and the outskirts of Maarrat Misrin town and other places in the area, in exchange of attacks by each party, and the SOHR monitored during the past 24 hours, that  Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham returned to attack after the successive withdrawals since the start of this fighting in the 20th of February 2018, in an attempt by Tahrir Al-Sham to restore the areas it lost during the past few days, while Ahrar Al-Sham and Suqour Al-Sham are trying to repel this attack and continue to take the control of more areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the SOHR learned from several intersected sources, that Tahrir al-Sham attacked Maarrat Misrin town this morning with heavy vehicles, and it managed to advance in the town and take the control of most of it, after it lost it few days ago in an attack by Ahrah Al-Sham. The violent fighting which started on the 20th of February 2018, accompanied by shelling by tanks and mortar shells, and which also targeted residential neighborhoods in the towns and villages which are witnessing clashes between the conflicting factions, raged massive resentment in the area, amid civil calls to stop the fighting and open fronts against the regime forces instead of this fighting which citizens described as free services for their enemies, in addition to calls to stop the random shelling between the conflicting parties, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented since the start of fighting on the 20th of February 2018, the death of 17 citizens including 6 children and 5 women, as a result of shelling and random shootings in the countryside of both Aleppo and Idlib, and the SOHR also documented the death of 208 fighters at least of the conflicting parties in Idlib and Aleppo, where 123 members at least of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were killed during the shelling and clashes against Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in the western countryside of Aleppo, and against Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham in Idlib countryside, and 85 fighters of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement ,Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham, who were killed during the shelling and clashes in the area, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of a large number of injuries, some of them have seriously wounded, in addition to information about other casualties the SOHR is not able to document so far.