The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

A fighter of “Tahrir al-Sham” detonates a booby-trapped car in the regime forces at the southern countryside of Idlib amid violent clashes in the area

The most violent clashes are still taking place between the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them against the factions and the jihadi groups, amid hit-and-run clashes between both parties in areas of Sukayk and its strategic hill, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a booby-trapped vehicle led by a suicide bomber of “Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham” targeted gatherings of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in Sukayk hill south of Idlib, in conjunction with counterattack by the jihadi groups and factions to regain control of the hill they lost today after violent clashes and hysterical air and ground shelling that targeted the area, raising to 21 fighters including 19 of the jihadi groups were killed, while 21 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, in addition to information about other casualties.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 3118, the number of people who were killed since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin – Erdogan agreement, until the 10th of August 2019, and they are: 888 civilians including 218 children and 161 citizen women, and they are 161 including 31 children and 35 women, and 6 of the civil defense and 3 of the ambulance team were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 68 including 15 women and 10 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 474 including 131 children, 78 women, and 4 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 106 people including 20 women and 20 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 79 citizens including 26 children and 13 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, Qamhana, Al-Rasif, Al-Aziziyah, Karnaz, Jurin, Al-Nairab Camp, neighborhoods in Aleppo city and its southern countryside, while at least 1174 fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s aerial and ground shelling including 744 of the Jihadis, in addition to the killing of 1056 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And during the period between the 15th of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 10th of August 2019, and Syrian Observatory documented the death of 3647 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 1174 civilians including 300 children under the age of eighteen and 225 women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the Russian aerial bombardment and the rocket shelling by the regime forces and the factions, and among the death toll of civilians there are 105 people including 31 children under the age of eighteen and 17 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1254 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 789 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 1213 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the start of the Russian – Turkish truce the death of 3877 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 1257 civilians including 329 children and 239 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 106 people including 31 children and 16 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1327 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 802 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 1239 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.