Violent clashes continue in the northern countryside of Hama mostly hit-and-run clashes
Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: it rose to 2 including a female fighter; the number of persons who were killed of the militiamen loyal to the regime forces, who were killed in a mine explosion in the countryside of Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama, where the Syrian Observatory documented on the 11th of October 2017 the killing of 3 members of the NDF including a female fighter, they were killed in a landmine explosion in al-Barghothiyyah village in the eastern countryside of Hama, while the fight operations continue between Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and rebel factions against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, in the areas of Syriatel Hill, vicinity of Abu Dali village and al-Zafriyyah area in the northeastern countryside of Hama, where Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions were able to re-control sites the regime forces had advanced to, and the clashes have caused casualties in the ranks of both parties, also a violent explosion was heard in the farms of Abu Laffah village countryside in the northern countryside of Hama, caused by detonating a booby trapped vehicle by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the area, accompanied by violent continuous clashes between both parties in the area, also the regime forces managed to advance towards Mrijeb al-Hemlan village while they had already advanced in Abu Laffah farms.
The Syrian Observatory published that it monitored that the warplanes carried out intensive strikes targeted the controlled areas of Tahrir Al-Sham and the areas which the regime forces attacked, accompanied the violent fighting between the both parties, thus the number of strikes that hit the north-eastern countryside of Hama, has increased to 390 strikes, and caused great damage to the infrastructure and to the property of the citizens, in which the strikes hit the villages of Al-Rahjan, Al-Shatib, Arafa, Tell Khanzir, al-Shakuziyyeh, Qasr Ibn Wardan, Jib Al-Sokkar, Abu Dali, Umm Turaykiyah, Al-Mshirfah, Al-Dafriyyah, Qasr Shawy, Al-Khalidiya, Rabda, Eib Al-Khaznah, Mweileh, Hawayiz, Al-Rweideh, Al-Hamdania, Haymaniyah, Zughayr and other residential communities and position controlled by Tahrir Al-Sham, since the 22nd of October 2017, until today the 29th of October 2017, in which the villages mentioned above witnessed violent and successive air strikes, with varying pace of escalations and intensity.