Shelling leaves casualties and wounded in the north of Homs and an attempt to advance in the west of Jabal Sha’ir
Homs Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a child was killed in shelling by regime forces on areas in Al-Ghantu town, in the northern countryside of Homs, while a young man was killed and a number of other people were injured, by shelling by regime forces on places in Talbiseh city in the same countryside, the warplanes also bombed places in Burj Qa’i village in the north of Homs, without information about casualties.
On the other hand, violent clashes are taking place between regime supported by gunmen loyal to them on one hand, and the members of ISIS on the other, in places in the area which extends within Jabal Sha’ir – Jib Al-Jarah – the mountains of Shomariyyeh triangle, in the eastern countryside of Homs, at a distance of about 50 kilometers from Homs city, where the organization still controls hundreds of square kilometers, and a large number of villages and heights and hills, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the regime forces and their allied militiamen managed to restore control over the whole besieged circle located between the west of siege line extending from al-Taybah to al-Sukhnah in the east, and from Ithriyah to Jebel al-Sha’er in the west, where reliable sources asserted to the Syrian Observatory that the regime forces managed to archive strategic and big advancement and control vast area from the Syrian desert in the northeastern countryside of Homs, which is estimated to be about 2 thousand square kilometers.
The reliable sources asserted to the Syrian Observatory that the regime forces managed during the past hours to cleanse tens of hills, positions and areas used to be controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the western desert of al-Sukhnah, while other sources told the Syrian Observatory that the organization withdrew most of its fighters before the completion of the siege of the area, for fear of trapping them in the siege after the regime forces encircle the area. The regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities continue sweeping the area for searching for pockets of the “Islamic State” organization.