Recent developments across Syria

 

On May 29, 2021

Regime-controlled areas

-SOHR activists have reported an IED explosion near the recruitment branch in the security zone in Daraa city, which caused material damage only. Meanwhile, regime engineering teams managed to dismantle another IED in the same area.
– Syrian Observatory activists in areas under the control of regime forces have reported that hundreds of people sustained various injuries due to the indiscriminate and intensive gunfire by regime’s loyalists in all provinces during celebrations of al-Assad’s “victory” in the “farcical show” of presidential election. SOHR activists managed to verify the injury of 317 people in this indiscriminate gunfire, some of whom sustained serious injuries. SOHR would like to point out that the number of injured people may be higher, as many other cases have not been verified. The injured people have been documented in Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Aleppo city, the Syrian coastline, Homs and Hama. Moreover, a young man and a child died affected by their injuries after being hit with indiscriminate gunshots in Aleppo city.
– SOHR sources have reported that regime security services arrested, yesterday evening, at least four people at a makeshift camp on the road to Kherbet Ghazala in Daraa countryside for unknown reasons. It is worth noting that the arrested people are civilians and they have struck reconciliation deals with regime security services.
Aleppo
– SOHR activists in areas under the control of the factions of “Euphrates Shield” operations room monitored cautious calm prevailing in al-Bab city following dramatic developments and fierce clashes on the previous day. Although the factions had the situation under control and managed to kill the members of the cell, the Turkish-backed were seen on high alert.
A day earlier, Syrian Observatory activists documented the death of three Turkish-backed militiamen in clashes with ISIS cell in al-Bab city in the eastern countryside of Aleppo. Also, two members of the cells were killed, including a member blew himself up with an explosive belt. Meanwhile, the city which is under the control of the factions of “Euphrates Shield” operations room experienced growing tension.

– SOHR activists have documented the death of two elements of the Kurdish forces “Afrin liberation forces” by landmine explosion in an attempt to sneak into pro-Turkish factions’ sites on the frontline of Maraanaz in the northern countryside of Aleppo two days ago.

 

“De-escalation zone”
– SOHR activists in the “de-escalation zone” have reported that regime forces renewed artillery fire on Idlib and Hama countryside this morning, targeting positions in Bayanin, Majdaliyah, Kansafrah, al-Barah, Fulayfel, al-Fterah in south Idlib, Kherbet al-Naqous, and al-Mnasourah and its surrounding areas in Sahl al-Ghab in north-western Hama. The regime bombardment resulted in the outbreak of fires on farmlands in Sahl al-Ghab, but no casualties have been reported.
– Every year, with the beginning of the season of wheat harvesting in Sahl al-Ghab in the western countryside of Hama, regime forces and their proxy militias start targeting harvesters and agriculture machines with artillery, which results in outbreak of fires on many occasions, with the aim to repress and “punish” the farmers in these areas.
– SOHR activists have reported seeing members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on high alert in order to arrest some of wanted persons for “supporting the Syrian regime”. In Dana city HTS boosted its checkpoints at the entrance of the city and the agriculture road. Members of HTS checked citizens carefully, which led to long lines of cars rowed on its checkpoints.