Violent clashes continue in the southeastern countryside of Idlib and the factions desperately fight to regain control of a strategic village and hill

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Clashes continue in the southeastern countryside of Idlib between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes since the morning in al-Aghar area, which was controlled by the regime forces noon of day after intense aerial and rocket shelling, which is a strategic area that allows the regime forces -if they hold control of it- to monitor large areas in its vicinity.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham starting a counter attack in order to regain control of this area, the clashes which are still taking place are accompanied by intense exchange of targeting between both parties, and confirmed information about casualties in the ranks of both of them, and information about an advancement by the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the area and regaining control of sites they lost, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the clashes are concentrated with violent and heavy shelling of warplanes and the regime forces are working on holding their control over the village and the hill, which will allow them to monitor large areas of the southeastern countryside of Idlib and the northeastern countryside of Hama. The control over these hill and village will enable the regime forces to impose semi-full siege with ISIS on Al-Dabiyiah and A’ab Al-Khazna villages and Jebel Hwaish area, which are controlled by Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, where only one passage will be remained to link the besieged areas with other areas controlled by Tahrir Al-Sham, which may lead the fighters of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham to withdraw from this passage, in order not to be fully besieged and attacked by ISIS, which uses the opportunity to carry out attacks on the area and control the largest number of villages to increase its controlled areas in the northeastern countryside of Hama, through which the organization goes deep into the province of Idlib, from which it was expelled days ago.