East of Hama witnesses continued and violent shelling and continued counterattacks by ISIS

Hama province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against ISIS in the western part of Uqayribat town in the eastern countryside of Hama and the districts of the town, which used to be the main stronghold of ISIS in Hama province, and confirmed information about the death of several members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, and the clashes are accompanied by several airstrikes on the clash areas.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the fighting is concentrated in areas at the western suburbs of Uqayribat town in the eastern countryside of Hama. Information was reported about the death and injury of several Russian soldiers in addition to casualties at both parties to the fighting. The SOHR also learned that ISIS managed to regain control over the western part of Uqayribat town following a counter attack it executed and was observed by the SOHR. Meanwhile, a violent explosion rocked the city and turned out to be caused by a booby-trapped car that targeted positions of the regime forces in the western part of the town.

The SOHR observed that the Russian and the regime’s warplanes and helicopters carried out tens of raids, raising the number of raids that targeted the eastern countryside of Hama since the dawn of today, Saturday the 2nd of September 2017, to more than 50. Reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that the Russian forces took up positions in the eastern countryside of Hama. They also asserted that the Russian forces are present in Al-Mab’oja area in the northeastern countryside of Salamiyah, which witnessed a massacre earlier this year perpetrated by ISIS. Such massacre left tens of civilians and members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen dead.