The regime forces and allies increase their military alert in anticipation for the announcement of the grand battle of Idlib and call on the operation’s commanders and officers to the battlefronts and contact lines with the factions

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the contact lines in the provinces of Idlib, Latakia, and Hama are witnessing an escalation in the alert situation by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, where intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the regime forces have increased the frequency of their alert and called on all officers and operation commanders of Idlib battle, to prepare for a large-scale military operation, coincided with the arrival of regime’s commander of operations to the battle of Idlib, the Brigadier Suhail al-Hasan, while the Syrian Observatory learned that the regime forces increased their preparations to declare the start of battle against the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Turkestani Party, Hurras al-Dien Organization, and the National Liberation Front which are operating in Idlib, northern countryside of Hama and Latakia mountains, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored at the same time targeting by the factions for an armored vehicle belongs to the regime forces in Sahl al-Ghab area, which damaged it and preliminary information about casualties due to this targeting, followed by heavy shelling targeted areas in the triangle of west Idlib – Lattakia Mountains – Sahl al-Ghab by the regime forces.

And the Syrian Observatory published on Sunday, the 2nd of September 2018 that it monitored that the regime forces brought more military reinforcements of members, weapons, materiel and armored vehicles, to positions along the front line stretched from the northern mountains of Lattakia to Aleppo countryside passing through Sahl Al-Ghab, the northern countryside of Hama, and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, along with more fortifications and preparations for the grand battle, where the SOHR monitored the distribution and deployment of the military reinforcements which are arriving consecutively to the contact areas, as a part of the grand battle of Idlib which the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them are being prepared for, and the SOHR published that as time passes and the regime forces’ military operation and the grand battle of Idlib approach, the unprecedented mobilization is continuing for a battle in which the majority of the military power operates on the Syrian land, is suggested to participate, after the control of the Syrian opposition decreased and after it was confined within large spaces of the northern countryside of Hama, Sahl Al-Ghab, areas in the north-west of Hama, parts of the northern mountains of Lattakia, the western countryside of Aleppo, and spaces of the southern countryside of Aleppo.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the recent weeks, that the regime forces brought massive military reinforcements, represented by bringing tens of thousands of members of the forces of their army and gunmen loyal to them, and the SOHR learned from a number of intersected sources that the regime forces have deployed more than 2000 armored vehicles on the contact lines extended from the northern mountains of Lattakia to the eastern countryside of Idlib passing through Sahl Al-Ghab, the northern countryside of Hama and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, amid intensifying the positions and guard posts, and preparing their members for a grand battle through which they aim to advance at the expense of the factions and take the control of the largest possible area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the arrival of hundreds of fighters, as well, of the opposition factions which joined in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, the capital Damascus, and the provinces of Daraa and Al-Quneitra to the “reconciliation and settlements”, after the regime forces imposed their control over the factions’ areas, thus, the fighters of the opposition who fight previously against the regime forces, fight today in the side of the regime forces within the battle of Idlib, while the SOHR monitored that the regime forces are transferring more of their forces to the contact lines and fronts of clashes against the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the Turkestani Islamic Party starting from the northern mountains of Latakia to southern countryside of Aleppo, and the dispatch of members is mainly focused to the fronts of the southeastern countryside of Idlib with Sahl al-Ghab, while the regime forces are transferring members of the newly recruited members to calm fronts, in conjunction with transferring their members to the contact lines in preparation for the grand battle of Idlib.