The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces violate the Turkish – Russian truce through renewed shelling that targeted the demilitarized zone within the part of the north-eastern mountains of Lattakia

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces returned to carry out violations to the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce, within the demilitarized zone, where they targeted the north-eastern sector of Lattakia countryside, where the shells fell on places in the areas of Kabani and Tuffahiyeh, in the north-eastern countryside of Lattakia, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and these violations come after calm that prevailed the area for hours, where the Syrian Observatory published today afternoon, the 27th of October 2018, that violations of the Russian – Turkish truce in the four provinces continue out without being stopped by its guarantors, amid their failure to control it, and the shelling is escalating by both parties, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces targeted again areas in al-Tamanah town in the southern countryside of Idlib, and other areas in the towns of Morek and Lahaya in the northern countryside of Hama, also the Syrian Observatory monitored intensive shelling in a continuous escalation, which is one of the heaviest escalation on the demilitarized area and the rest of the Russian – Turkish truce areas; since the 17th of September 2018, where areas in the vicinity of Morek, Lahaya, Atshan and al-Tamanah in the countryside of Hama and Idlib were targeted by 100 shells since dawn of today, while the regime forces targeted using heavy machine guns places in Kabana area in the northeastern countryside of Latakia within the demilitarized area.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours earlier that violations of the Russian – Turkish truce continue and increase in the four provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, and Latakia, amid turning-a blind-eye by its guarantors, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an exchange of shelling between the Islamic factions operating in the southeast of Idlib and between the regime forces in the northern countryside of Hama, where the Islamic factions targeted positions of the regime forces in the areas of Ma’an and Tal Bazam in the northeastern countryside of Hama, in conjunction with continued targeting by the regime forces for areas in the vicinity of al-Taman’aa town in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, the vicinity of Morek town north of Hama, and Atshan village in the northeastern countryside of Hama, but no information about casualties until now, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more violations within areas of the Russian – Turkish truce and the demilitarized area after midnight of yesterday, where the regime forces shelled places in the agricultural lands of Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, while one of the factions targeted by several rocket shells places in al-Sifsafiyeh village, which is under the control of the regime forces at the northwestern countryside of Hama, but no information about casualties, where the sources suggested that an Islamic army had targeted the village, and the Syrian Observatory published last night, Friday, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored artillery shelling by the regime forces on areas in Al-Khwaiyn town, in the south-eastern sector of Idlib countryside, also shells fell on areas in Nile Street in the western sector of Aleppo city, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, while the factions operating within the “Wa Harrid Al-Mo’minun” Operation Room, which is composed of Hurras al-Dien Organization, Ansar Al-Dien Front, Ansar al-Tawhid and Ansar Al-Islam Group, in the west of Aleppo, targeted a position of the regime forces in the outskirts of Jam’eyyat Al-Zahraa neighborhood, west of Aleppo city amid information about the fall of human losses in the ranks of the regime forces, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that it monitored shelling by the regime forces on areas in the villages of Umm Jalal and Raffa in the south-eastern sector of Idlib countryside, also, the western outskirts of Aleppo city, witnessed crossfire by using machineguns between the regime forces and the factions operating in the area, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the shelling resulted in the death of 7 citizens at least including 3 children and 3 women, as a result of the shelling which targeted Raffa village, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, and this is the biggest massacre with the largest death toll by regime’s shelling since the start of implementing the Turkish – Russian truce on the 15th of August 2018.