Few hours after shooting down a warplane south-east of Idlib…warplanes and helicopters revenge for shooting down it and bomb the area violently
The warplanes and helicopters returned to fly this morning the 27th of December 2017, over Idlib and Hama countryside, in conjunction with bombing areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions in the both countryside by missiles and explosive barrels, in which the helicopters dropped explosive barrels in an escalated way, in conjunction with bombardment by the warplanes on places in the villages of Al-Khwaiyn, Um Haratayn, Al-Hamdania, and other areas in the both countryside, and the regime forces shelled after the midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, areas in Al-Taman’aa town and the villages of Abu Dali and Atshan as well as other areas, in the north-east of Hama and the south of Idlib, and this shelling comes as a revenge for shooting down a warplane yesterday and killing the pilot after he landed in areas out of the control of the regime forces.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night that The northeastern countryside of Hama and the southeastern countryside of Idlib have witnessed continued violent clashes between the attacking regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, as a result of a counterattack by the regime forces through which they were able to advance again in most of the areas they lost afternoon of today after a counter attack by the factions, a few hours after expelling the factions of it, the violent clashes were accompanied by heavy and intense mortar, artillery, tank shells as well as missiles and raids by warplanes and helicopters, amid intense targeting in the clash areas. The clashes have caused heavy casualties in the ranks of both parties, where tens were killed and wounded of both parties, and at least 8 fighters of the factions were confirmed killed these clashes, while the shelling escalated yesterday afternoon, after taking down a warplanes in the sky of the clash areas near Al-Hamdaniyah area, in which a pilot officer is killed while the fate of the other is not known so far, and the heavy bombardment which took place on areas extending from the northern countryside of Hama to the eastern countryside of Idlib, has left more causalities, where 5 fighters of Al-Modatat brigade in Jaysh Al-Izza, whose ages are 18 years old, were killed in airstrikes on Al-Latmnah area, while it rose to at least 22 people, including 4 children and 4 women, who were killed since Monday afternoon until the moment in the airstrikes on Umm Muwailat, Rasm al-Abd, Khan Shaykhoun, Tal al-Touqan, Sheikh Baraka, Zafra refugee camp, Tal Emara, and the death toll is expected to increase as there is information about more martyrs and several injured in serious conditions.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday morning that it monitored that monitored that several warplanes carried out intensive raids simultaneously targeting the villages of Al-Jninah, al-Mluleh, Al-Maslokhia, Al-Hamra, Jib Al-Sokkar, Um Haratayn and Al-Hamdania in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and villages in Sinjar Township and the areas of Zaytuneh, Abu Dali, Al-Mshirfah, Tama, Dajaj, Rasm Elabed, Sukayk, Al-Taman’aa, Al-Khwaiyn, Tal Al-Aghar, and other places in the area extended from the northern section of Hama to the eastern countryside of Idlib, and the bombardment was accompanied by artillery shelling on areas in Al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama, and other places in Al-Taman’aa town in the southern countryside of Idlib, and this bombardment which was carried out by the regime forces with their warplanes, helicopters, shells and missiles on the southern, the eastern and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib as well as the northern and the north-eastern countryside of Hama, backed by squadrons of Russian warplanes which take part in the bombardment, came after two main events, the first was the arrival of military reinforcements of the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in Hama and Idlib countryside to take part in the combat operations, and assigning the Brigadier in the regime forces, Suhail Al-Hassan, known as the “Tiger” to lead the operation, and he is known for using aircraft intensively in the preliminary and combat operations, and he was the owner of the theory of explosive barrels which caused damage in large parts to the infrastructure, buildings, property and public facilities in Aleppo city and its countryside in addition to his operations in Hama, Al-Raqqah or even in Palmyra and the eastern countryside of Homs or in Deir Ezzor, and the second was the attack that was carried out by the rebel and Islamic factions on Zilaqiat area in the northern countryside of Hama, which lasted for only few hours as the regime forces managed to absorb the attack and they regained the control of the areas they lost in the north of Hama, followed by hysterical intensive shelling that has continued since the 17th of December 2017.