After information about preparations for military action towards Afrin area from the western countryside of Aleppo… Faction controlling Darat Azza swear allegiance to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: A child was killed by a mine explosion planted by the “Islamic State” organization in Maskanah area, which was controlled by the regime forces weeks ago in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, while clashes took place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against fighters of rebel and Islamic factions in areas in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahra’a neighborhood at the western outskirts of Aleppo city, while two shells landed on areas in Halab Al-Jadidah neighborhood in Aleppo city, which caused material damage, but no information about casualties.

In another context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information from reliable sources about the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham of Darat Azza town, located in the western countryside of Aleppo and adjacent to Idlib province, the control came after a battalion that controls Darat Azza swore allegiance to Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, where this front witnessed during the past days and weeks clashes between the factions operating there against YPG who control Afrin, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information earlier about preparations in the western countryside of Aleppo and at the outskirts of Afrin by the factions operating there, to carry out a military action against YPG in Afrin, in conjunction with Turkish preparations with the participation of factions working in the northern countryside of Aleppo for an attack on areas control by the Syria Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo, to restore the villages between Marea and Deir Jamal.