The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After a relative calm for about 3 months, the northern countryside of Hama witnesses the heaviest shelling and fighting and the regime forces begin an attack to advance in the area

Hama province  – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: The northern countryside of Hama is witnessing the most violent clashes since the implementation of the de-escalation agreement, which included areas extending from the Syrian north to the Syrian south, where the activists of the Syrian Observatory monitored heavy shelling with tens of shells and missiles launched by the regime forces on areas Mork town in the northern countryside of Hama, in conjunction with heavy shelling on Lahaia village, amid heavy shelling by the regime forces on the villages of Atshan and Om Haratyen in the northeastern countryside of Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the intensive shelling is accompanied by violent clashes between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions in areas in the vicinity of Tel Bazam and Ma’an areas, where the regime forces is trying through this attack, which began shortly, to advance from the area of Tel Bazam to the vicinity of Mork town, in conjunction with attempts to advance to from Ma’an towards the villages of Atshan and Om Haratyen. The clashes are accompanied by an exchange of targeting on the clash areas, and there is confirmed information about human losses in the ongoing military operations in the area. The warplanes also bombed areas in the village of Hamada Omar at today’s dawn, and other areas in Kulayeb al-Thor and Bari al-Sharqi in the northern countryside of Hama, and no information about injuries.

The clashes, which took place on Friday the 4th of August 2017, are considered the most violent clashes since the first third of May 2017, which took place in areas in the northern countryside of Hama, the clashes in which the regime forces have advanced then and controlled areas after violent fighting which left big human losses in the ranks of the regime forces and the factions.