The regime forces and allies mobilize their forces that fought against the factions and ISIS to fight in the grand battle of Idlib which has been prepared for in an unprecedented way

The likelihoods of launching the grand battle are rising every day more and more, where the regime forces are preparing more and more for it, and at the same time the rebel and Islamic factions are preparing for repelling this attack, and in the midst of both preparation, the civilians are still the first victims and the first to be mourn after any artillery, missile, aerial shelling or clash may take place in the coming period, where Idlib Province and the parts connected to it of the northern Mountains of Latakia, Sahl al-Ghab in the northwestern countryside of Hama, the northern countryside of Hama, and the southern, eastern, and southeastern countryside of Idlib, and the southern and southwestern countryside of Aleppo, include millions of residents and displaced people who came from other areas from Daraa, Quneitra, south and east of Damascus, Eastern Ghouta, Western Ghouta, west of Rif Dimashq, Homs Province, south of Hama, and other areas, of who fell between the hammer of the regime and its allies and the anvil of the closed borders and the narrow geographical area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the increase in pace of regime’s preparations to start the grand battle of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory learned from intersected sources that the regime forces have mobilized the majority of their forces who fought previously against the factions and the “Islamic State” organization, and moved them to the contact lines and clash fronts in the countryside of Idlib, Hama, Latakia, and Aleppo, in order to have the upper hand in the battle, for which they have mobilized more than 2000 armored vehicle so far, and called for tens of thousands of members of their forces and the gunmen loyal to them, in addition to summoning their officers and operation commanders, headed by the Brigadier General Suhail al-Hassan, known as the “al-Nemr” (the tiger), while the regime forces are following the tactic of scattered shelling, through moving the shelled area between the day and the other, and concentrating the shelling each time on an area without the other, to disperse fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Turkestani Party, and the factions operating in factions’ controlled areas north, east, and west of the contact line between the regime forces and the factions, extending from the northern mountains of Latakia to the southern countryside of Aleppo passing through Sahl al-Ghab and the eastern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, while the areas of control of the rebel and Islamic factions, the National Liberation Front, the Turkestani  Islamic party, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, Hurras al-Dien Organization also witnessed preparations to confront these large crowds if the battle was launched, where they dug tunnels and trenches, strengthened their positions and points, and increased the number of their fighters on the fronts.

And the sources confirmed to the SOHR that the operation commanders and officers of the regime forces have been noticed in Abu Al-Duhur area, in the eastern countryside of Idlib, after they have been called on and mobilized by the regime forces command, which called on all of Idlib Battle’s operation commanders and officers in order to get ready for a wide-scale military operation, along with the arrival of the regime’s operation commander of Idlib Battle, the Brigadier Suhail Al-Hassan, in anticipation for announcing about the battle and starting it against the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, Hurras al-Dien organization, and the National Liberation Front operating in Idlib, north of Hama, and Lattakia Mountains, 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.