The southern countryside of Aleppo witnesses ongoing violent fighting and counter attacks by Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions in order to recover what they lost for the regime forces and their allied

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the fighting is still continuing in the southern countryside of Aleppo, between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, in an attempt by the regime forces to advance in the area, to reach the eastern countryside of Idlib and take the control of Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the clashes concentrated in Abaysan area and other nearby areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and the clashes were accompanied by exchange of shelling, while the factions are seeking to recover all areas they lost, after they managed to recover areas of they lost, during the last night, and the past 48 hours witnessed increased pace of the fighting between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab, Iranian and Asian nationalities against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, as a result of the violent attacks by the regime forces as well as the counter attacks which left casualties, and the regime forces managed to take the control of 5 villages they are: Al-Rashadiyah, Ramla, Hijarah, Abaysan and al-Mazra’a, but Tahrir Al-Shama managed to restore Abaysan as well as other positions in other villages.

These clashes were accompanied by intensive and violent shelling by the regime forces on the clash areas, amid exchange of targeting in the clash fronts, and the increased pace of the fighting came after the regime forces failed during the past few days to achieve advancement in the area, so they turned to increase the scope of the clash fronts, and they managed to achieve rapid advancement and took the control the 5 villages mentioned above, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Wednesday, that the military operations of the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities are continuing in the southern countryside of Aleppo, through which the regime forces are seeking to advance in the area near Khanasir and near the main artery of Aleppo, Aleppo – Khanasir – Ithriyah – Salamiyah Road, and to reach Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase in the eastern section of Idlib countryside, in which daily clashes have been taking place since the 2nd of November 2017, between them against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo, during which the regime forces failed to achieve their goal, as a result of repelling their attack by Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions, or regaining the control by the later of the areas they lost, by carrying out direct and counter attacks preceded holding their control over the areas which the regime forces and their allied had advanced into, and with the continuation of these operations since they started at the beginning of this month, which witnessed the fall of casualties in the ranks of the both parties, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a video shows an execution by fighters said that they are of Jaysh Osama of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, operating in the southern countryside of Aleppo, in which they shot a person who they said that it is a captive of the gunmen loyal to the regime forces, and that they “will carry out the punishment against this infidel, the apostate, the enemy of Allah, who deserve to be killed”, in which they shot him intensively, which caused his immediate death, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also received another video shows the fighter while they were capturing the person who they executed, in which they said that they have captured him in Hijara area in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and asked him ” Sharia questions” before executing him.