shelling, targeting, and clashes in the demilitarized area close to the regime forces’ operations command east of Idlib
The demilitarized area and the Turkish – Russian truce areas in Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, and Latakia are witnessing the continuation of violations in various areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored dawn of today, the 13th of November 2018, violent clashes took place near regime forces’ operations command Room east of Idlib, specifically in the abandoned battalion area in the eastern sector of Idlib countryside, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against factions operating in the area including jihadis, along with exchange of shelling and targeting, where the regime forces shelled places in the areas of Tawil al-Haleeb and al-Mshirfah, in conjunction with targeting by the factions for the regime forces in the area, while the targeting and shelling are still taking place sporadically, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday evening, that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more violations within the demilitarized zone and the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce which is supposed to be applied in Latakia, Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, where the regime forces shelled places in the vicinity of Sukayk village in the southern countryside of Idlib, and other areas in the vicinity of Al-Lataminah town, and the villages of Lahaya and Al-Sakhr in the northern countryside of Hama, the regime forces also targeted by shells, places in the areas of Al-Leiramon and Al-Rashideen in the western and north-western suburbs of Aleppo, without information about casualties so far, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that monitored the return of violations to the demilitarized area and the Turkish – Russian truce areas, hours after the cautious calm that prevailed the area, where the regime forces targeted using heavy machine guns areas on the outskirts of al-Lataminah town within the demilitarized area in the northern countryside of Hama, thus, documenting a new breach after more than 13 hours of cautious calm in the area, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored renewed violations by the regime forces, which targeted the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce, where the SOHR monitored shelling which targeted areas in the villages and towns of Al-Taman’aa, Jarjnaz, Sukayk, Al-Khwaiyn and Tara’i, in both southern and south-eastern countryside of Idlib, in conjunction with targeting by heavy machineguns to the area between Al-Tah and Um Jalal, amid targeting to the villages of Farja and Al-Attal, along with firing flare bombs in the sky of the area by the regime forces, and the targeting operations resulted in the fall of wounded, while the regime forces targeted areas in the outskirts of Murak town, in the northern sector of Hama countryside, and the Syrian Observatory monitored hours ago, targeting by the regime forces by several mortar shells and heavy machineguns to areas in the outskirts in Al-Lataminah town, in the demilitarized zone, in the northern countryside of Hama, the SOHR also monitored shelling by the regime forces on areas in Kafr Hamra and Ma’arrat al-Artik towns in the north-west of Aleppo, followed by the fall of shells on the controlled areas of the regime forces in the 3000-Apartment Project and the vicinity of Al-Assad Suburb, in Al-Hamdania area in the western part of Aleppo city, while no information about injuries was reported, and the Syrian Observatory also monitored that an armored vehicle of the regime forces broadcasted threats to the fighters of the factions to leave the area and threatened of a “Russian extermination” where the statement warned the fighters against the entry of the Russian forces which will exterminate them, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 13th of October 2018, that an armored vehicle of the regime forces broadcasted threats to the factions in the area of the western outskirts of Aleppo, included threats to target everyone who will not leave the demilitarized zone before the 15th of October 2018, threatening to shell and kill them, and that they (the regime forces) know where the factions are located and hidden, and the tunnels and shelters will not protect the factions, as the Russian Air Forces will exterminate all the faction’s fighter, and they enabled them to choose either “wanton deaths or the handover of weapons and the return to bosom of the Motherland”.