Highest death toll in 2024 | HTS kills 12 members of regime forces in infiltration operation in Latakia countryside
SOHR activists have documented the death of 12 members of regime forces, including an officer, in an infiltration operation carried out by special forces of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham on regime positions on the frontlines of Wai Kalaz and Al-Sarraf in Jabal Al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Latakia on Tuesday.
This is the highest death toll ever in a single attack by HTS in the “de-escalation zone” in 2024.
Since early 2024, SOHR has documented 283 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks by ground forces, infiltration operations, gunfire by snipers, bombardment, clashes and kamikaze drone attacks, which left 314 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 125 combatants, including a Turkish soldier, and 136 civilians, including three women and 20 children, injured.
The fatalities can be distributed as follows:
- 26 civilians, including 12 children and two women.
- 202 members of regime forces, including 22 officers.
- 70 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham.
- Five members of “Ansar Al-Islam” faction.
- Two members of “Jaysh Al-Nasr.”
- One member of “Jaysh Al-Ahrar.”
- Two jihadists, including a jihadist of Turkish descent.
- A member of “Al-Hamzah” Division.
- Three members of “Al-Sham Corps.”
- One member of the “Public Resistance” which operates under the banner of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room.
- One member of the “Thowwar Al-Sham” Battalion which operates under the banner of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room.