A leader of the NDF and members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them are killed in the continuous clashes in the southern countryside of Aleppo

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: clashes took place in areas in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahra’a neighborhood west of Aleppo, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions, accompanied by the fall of shells regime forces’ controlled areas in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahra’a neighborhood, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of a leader of the gunmen loyal to the regime forces along with several members with him; during the clashes that took place yesterday in areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo against Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, where the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the violent clashes are taking place in the southern countryside of Aleppo, with continuous attempts by the regime forces to achieve advancement and reach the eastern countryside of Idlib, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today, Saturday the 2nd of December 2017, violent clashes that have been continuing since few hours between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo, in which the area is witnessing hit-and-run clashes and exchange of advancement between the regime forces and the factions and Tahrir Al-Sham, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the factions and Tahrir Al-Sham managed to regain the control of a village which the regime forces advanced into few days ago, while the clashes are accompanied by exchange of intensive shelling between the both parties, amid fall of human losses in the ranks of the both parties.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published few days ago that 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: Al-Rashadiyah, Ramla, Hijarah, Abaysan and al-Mazra’a, 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.