Russian-backed regime forces capture more areas west of Aleppo seeking to secure Damascus-Aleppo international highway

SOHR sources report that regime forces and loyalists militiamen made new advance, west of Aleppo, capturing Rif Al-Muhandissin Al Awal and Kafr Jom, while trying to secure the Damascus-Aleppo international highway M5.

In the last few days, regime forces captured 67 areas in southern and western rural Aleppo, (Khan Touman, the warehouses of Khan Touman, Al-Khalidiya, Tal Hazmer, Khirbet Khars, Tal al-Zaytoun, Al-Rashidin Al Khamissa, Marata, Zamar, Jazraya, Uthmaniyeh Kabirah, Talafih, Tal Tabariz, Maharim, Khawari, Qalajiyah, Khalsa, Zitan, Barneh, Al Hwier, Ijaaz, Sheikh Ahmed, Tal Kratin, Al-Dhahiriya farm, Asiriyah, Makhaleh, Rasim Al Ward, Um Atbeh, Jub Al kass, Rasm Al Ais, Rasm Sahrij, Banis, Al-Iss, Tal al-Iss, Al-Kassebeya, Al-Bawabia, Tal Hadiya, Iqarda, Salhia, Al-Barqum, Kamari, Al Zarbeh, Al-Kalariya, Kafr Aleppo, Qanatar, Khirbet Jazaraya, Miznaz, Al-Rashidin Al-Rabia’a, Zaid neighborhood, Abu Shalim, Tal Kliriyah, Khan Al-Asal, Arbikh, Arrada, Sheikh Ali, Arnaz, Rif Al-Muhandissin Al-Awal and Kafr jom) and other sites, points and villages in the area.