As a result of the violent and intensive shelling…the regime forces advance in 14 villages and areas during 24 hours and expand their control to 84 towns and areas since the start of the escalation in late October

Escalated shelling by the regime forces is continuing on positions of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions in the eastern and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces managed to achieve further advancement and they took the control of Elmashad and Mreijeb Elmashad villages, Tell Khaznah and Um Rijim in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, increasing their scope of control greatly as it has increased to at least 14, the number of the villages and towns which the regime forces controlled during the past 24 hours raising in turn to 84, the number of villages, towns and areas controlled by the regime forces since the 22nd of October 2017, which are Elmashad, Mreijeb Elmashad, Tell Khaznah, Um Rijim Al-Qasr Al-Abyad, Al-Hiqiyah, Rabia Mousa, Fahil Jallas, Um Rajm, Shaqfeh, Swayrat, Rasm Elabed, Al-Lobaydeh, Mushrifah Shamaliyah Al-Niha, Tel Umm Al-Khalakhil, , Mushyrifa Al-Gooan, Um Sahrij and its station, Al-Daribiya, Mushrifa Shamaliya, Al-Lwaibda, Rasm Al-abd, Swairat, Shakfa, Um Rajm, Fahil Jalas, Rabia Mousa, Al-Hakiya, Al-Qasr Al-Abyad, Al-Hamdiniya and its stations, Al-Nasriya, Abu Omar, Tel Marq, Atshan, Tel Zaater, Al-Gadoia, Al-Salumiya, Al-Khawin, Al-Zaror, Sham Al-Hawa, Um Al-Khalkhil, Qabibat Um Al-Hoda, Tel Aswad Ras Al-ain, Tel Tawila Mahmoud, Umm Haratin, Tel Al-Maktaa, Al-Maghara, Al-Tama, Al-Dajaj, Al-Mushayrifa, Abu Dali,Al-Hawia, Tel Al-Syriatel, Al-Shatib, Um Trikiya, Rajm Al-Ahmar, Al-Zafriya, Al-Bulail, Um Khazim, Abu Al-Ghar, Baghdid, Abu Lafa, and Al-Mushayrafa, Al-Shahtiya, al-Mestriha, Jub Abyad, Rasm Abu Myal, Rasm Al-Swan, Rasm Al-Sawy, Abu Al-Ghar, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm al-Tina, Jawiad, Hasrat, Kharbat Al-Rahjan, Hasnawy, Mwailah Shamali, Qasr Ali, Qasr Shawy, Tel Mahsar, Al-Rabia, Douma, Rabda, Al-Hazm, Arafa, Marijib Al-Jamlan, Al-Khafiya, Marijab Al-Jamlan, Sham Al-Hawa, Al-Rehraha, Sarha.

This accelerated expand of control during the past 24 hours came as a result of the intensive strikes which forced the factions to withdraw from these villages where the regime forces advanced, as well as information obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions started to create a front line in the beyond lines, and fortify and strengthen it, in order to repel the attack of the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities which are trying to advance to the north, and the regime’s helicopters renewed their bombardment targeting areas in the eastern and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, where they targeted by explosive barrels areas in the outskirts of Serman village as well as other places in Abu Makki village and in the west of Ma’ratta Camp in Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside, while the warplanes raided on the outskirts of Halbeh village in the same countryside.