Continuous shelling targets the contact areas in an attempt by the regime forces to force the factions to withdraw from the villages of the south-eastern countryside of Idlib

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the contact areas 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, are witnessing intensive exchange of targeting between the both parties, amid clashes between them, in an attempt by the regime forces to achieve advancement in more areas by intensify their shelling and force the factions to withdraw from the area, while the skies of Idlib countryside are witnessing relative absence of the warplanes and helicopters, with the exception of targeting a village in Sinjar Township in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past 24 hours, that 6 persons at least including a child, a citizen woman, a woman and her daughter were killed in the massacre that was carried out by warplanes which targeted Tal Tokan area, located near Saraqib town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, while the rescue teams are still searching for survivors under the rubble caused by the aerial bombardment, and the number of casualties may increase due to the presence of injured people in dangerous situations, and due to the presence of missing persons under the rubble, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the same period, shelling by the regime forces on areas in Sukayk and Al-Tamanah towns in the southern countryside of Idlib, in conjunction with 2 raids carried out by the warplanes on areas in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city about which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the warplanes targeted in the morning of the 2nd of January 2018 a museum in Maarrat Al-Nu’man in the southern countryside of Idlib, and caused significant destruction in parts of the museum, which used to be a headquarters of the regime in the city back in 2011 and 2012, and later became the headquarters of Ansar al-Islam Brigades, and the trusted sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these airstrikes have damaged parts of the museum, but no information about casualties, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that a squadron of warplanes flew yesterday before the midnight and after the midnight over Idlib countryside, targeting by intensive strikes places in the outskirts of Saraqeb town and the road linking Ariha, Saraqeb, Maar Dibsah, Jarjnaz, east of Idlib, and the outskirts of Maarrat Al-Nu’man, Horsh Bnin, Maarat Shurin, and the outskirts of Al-Mastumah and Wadi Al-Deif in the southern section of Idlib countryside.