After changing the areas of the battles because they failed to advance, the regime forces continue the first week of their operation and advanced to an area about 50 km east of Homs city
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that violent clashes have been taking place since the dawn of today between the regime forces and their militiamen against members of ISIS in areas in the triangle of Shaer Mountain – Jub al-Jarrah – Shomariyyeh Mountain in the eastern countryside of Homs, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the regime forces continue their violent attack in the area after failing to achieve more advancement in the eastern countryside of Hama which is linked to this triangle and after losing Uqayribat town and other villages in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah as a result of violent and repel attacks by ISIS in the area, while the SOHR monitored the regime forces managed to achieve an advancement of violent and heavy shelling, as they controlled 6 villages in this triangle located about 50 km east of the city of Homs, and approached from the south towards the administrative border with the eastern countryside of Hama, after they controlled villages in the past few days a week ago,
And the SOHR monitored days ago the regime forces advancing and controlling 3 new villages in the area of Jub al-Jarrah, in addition to their control over a new village and a hill near it in the area of Shomariyyeh Mountain, and the regime forces managed to advance in the triangle located about 50 km away from Homs, with a continued aerial and missile shelling, also SOHR published on the 9th of this month that the number of villages that the regime forces managed to control during 48 hours of turning the battle field from the eastern countryside of Hama to Shomariyyeh – Sha’ir – Jib Al-Jarah Triangle, in the eastern countryside of Homs, has increased to 12 villages at least, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 11th of September 2017 that the organization managed to control Uqayribat town, which is its main stronghold in Hama after days of fighting, in which the organization managed to carry out repel, consecutive and violent attacks against the regime forces that had controlled the town days ago, and the clashes are accompanied by car bombs and suicide bombs of ISIS members, while the regime forces started their violent attacks in the area in an attempt to restore it from the organization, amid heavy artillery and missile shelling and airstrikes targeting the clash areas, and the regime forces managed yesterday to impose control over the power station and two villages in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah, within the continued fighting aimed at ending the presence of ISIS in Hama province.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more casualties in the ranks of both parties, where it documented the death of more than 228 ISIS members including 21 members who blew up themselves with booby-trapped vehicles and explosive belts, while it rose to 101, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, who were killed in shelling and clashes since the morning of Saturday the 3rd of September 2017 until the 11th of September 2017.
Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information that the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern countryside of Hama is keeping bodies and wounded of Russian forces who were killed and wounded in the eastern countryside of Hama, where the Russian forces are looking them, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of more members in the ranks of both parties.