Under a cover of intensive shelling…the regime forces led by Suhail Al-Hassan with their allies advance and take the control of 4 villages today and expand their scope of control to 65 towns, villages and areas in Idlib and Hama
The violent fighting is continuing 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 the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, as a result of the ongoing attack by the regime forces led by the Brigadier in the regime forces, Suhail Al-Hassan, known as the “Tiger”, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces managed to achieve advancement in the area and they took the control of 2 new villages they are Umm Al-Khalayil and Niha, hours after taking the control of the villages of Zarzur and Sham Al-Hawa, near the important village of al-Khwyn, in which this advancement allowed the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them to increase their scope of control in Idlib, and to increase the number of the villages they have controlled since the start of their attack on the 22nd of October 2017, in which they controlled 65 towns, villages and areas, which are “Umm Al-Khalayil, Niha, Zarzur, Sham Al-Hawa, al-Khwyn, Al-Salumiya, Al-Jadu’eiyah, Tel Za’atar, Atshan, Tel Maraq, Abu Omar, Al-Nasriya, Al-Hamdaniya, and its station, Abu Dali, 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, RasmAl-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, and Mrijeb al-Jamlan.
In the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the warplanes carried out raids targeted areas in Tahtaya and Maar Hattat towns, areas in Haymaniyah village, other places in Al-Tah town, as well as areas in villages in Sinjar Township in the eastern section of Idlib countryside, amid intensive exchange of shelling on the clash areas between the both parties, in which the regime forces aim to force the factions to withdraw from the areas where the regime forces are working on advancing in them, taking the control and holding their control over them before the factions have the chance to carry out any counter attacks, and the SOHR monitored during 8 days of intensive shelling, more than 1458 shells and missiles, about 396 raids carried out by the warplanes, and more than 609 explosive barrels dropped by the helicopters, the number of raids, barrels and shells which the regime forces carried out, dropped and fired on the areas of Umm Al-Khalayil, Zarzur, Sham Al-Hawa, Sukayk, Al-Taman’aa, Khan Shaykhun, Al-Lataminah, Atshan, Al-Mshirfah, villages in Sinjar Township, Babuline, Tell Maraq, Al-Hamdania, Abu Omar, Um Haratayn, Kafr Amim, Murak, Kafr Zita, Saraqeb, Tahtaya, Jarjnaz, Sarman, Al-Khwaiyn, Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside, Tell Touqan, Sahyan, and other villages, residential communities and towns in Hama and Idlib countryside, which caused a large number of citizens and fighters during 8 consecutive days of the escalation.