De-escalation zone | Member of “HTS” killed and regime forces fire shells on town in eastern countryside of Idlib

A member of “HTS” was killed earlier today due to a bombardment by the regime forces on the 46th regiment in the western countryside of Aleppo within “Putin-Erdogan” area.
On a related context, regime forces fired heavy artillery shells on Maarat Al-Naasan town in the eastern countryside of Idlib. No causalities were reported.
Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 66 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 137 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 78 combatants and 22 civilians, including two women and other children, injured.
The fatalities can be distributed as follows:
• Six civilians were killed by regime forces.
• 94 members of regime forces, including six officers.
• 34 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, including a French jihadist.
• Two members of the jihadist faction of “Ansar Al-Tawheed.
• One member of “Ahrar Al-Sham” movement.