At least 35 fighters and members of the factions and Tahrir Al-Sham and the regime forces and their allies were killed in the past 36 hours due to the violent fighting in the countryside of Hama and Idlib

The fighting continues violently between the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham against the regime forces backed by their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in the southwest countryside of Idlib and the northeastern countryside of Hama, where the battles are concentrated in the vicinity of Umm Haratin area which the regime forces has controlled today along with Tala Tawlia Mahmoud, while the faction began rebel attacks to restore control over the area, and the fighting is accompanied by an exchange of heavy  targeting between both areas, amid heavy shelling by the regime forces on the areas controlled by the factions and Tahrir Al-Sham. The fighting caused human losses in the ranks of both parties, where it rose to at least 24 persons including a commander in Ahrar Al-Sham Movement, the number of the fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham who were killed in shelling, clashes and airstrikes in the past 36 hours, while at least 11 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities were killed in these clashes.

The SOHR published today that the regime forces managed to control the village of Umm Haratin and Tal Tawila Mahmoud after the regime forces managed yesterday to control the villages of Ras Al-Ain, Qabibat and Tel Aswad. Thus the regime forces have controlled 44 villages and areas, which are Umm Haratin, Tel Tawila Mohamoud, Ras Al-Ain, Tel Aswad, Qabibat, Um Al-Huda,  al-Hawiyyah, Al-Rweideh, al-Syriatel Hill, Al-Shatib, Al-Zafriyyah, Al-Blil, Um Khazim, Um Trikiyyeh, Rajm al-Ahmar, Al-Shahatiyyah, Al-Mestriha, Jub Abyad, Rasm Abu Mayyal, Rasm Al-Sawwan, Rasm Al-Sawi, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm Al-Tina, Abu Laffah, Al-Mshirfah, Jwi’eid, Hasrat, Khirbat Al-Rahjan, Hasnawi, Mweileh Shamali, Qasr Ali , Qasr Shawi, Tal Mahsar, Al-Rabiaa, Duma, Rabda, Hazem, Arafa, Mrijeb al-Jamlan, Al-Khefyeh, Sham Al Hawa, Al Rahraha, Sarha, Abu Al-Gher, Hasnawi and Baghidid. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that this bombardment 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, following 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