After controlling more than 52 villages and areas since the beginning of their escalation, the regime forces advance with their allies in the eastern part of the countryside of Idlib in order to get around Sinjar town

Idlib province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: areas in the eastern countryside of Idlib witness ongoing aerial shelling in conjunction with the ongoing advancement of the regime to the north, and the SOHR monitored aerial shelling that targeted areas in the village of Al-Syada and the town of Sinjar and other areas in its vicinity, in conjunction with the advancement of the regime forces and managed to control 2 new villages, Um al-Halahil and Sarja Sharqiya, where the regime forces seek to get around Sinjar town  and prevent engaging any clashes that delay their advancement to the north, rising to 9, the number of villages and areas recently controlled by the regime forces since the Saturday 6th of January 2018, expanding their areas of control in the countryside of Idlib, rising to 54, the number of villages controlled by them since the 25th of December, 2017.

It rises to 93, the number of villages, towns and areas controlled by the regime forces in the countryside of Hama and Idlib since the beginning of their military operations 22nd of October 2017, which are  ((Um Al-Halalil Um Mwailat, Al-Sheikh Barak, Hawa, Tel Amara, Al-Lubaida Al-Sharqia, Al-Nasriya, Fahil, Jalas, Um Rajm, 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.

Reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that it was difficult to station in the villages, which the regime forces recently controlled, because of their small areas and the absence of a strong defense line that could stop the advancement of the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, while Tahrir Al-Sham and their supporting factions will make a new defense line, through which they can stop the advancement of the regime forces and prevent them from further expanding their areas of control.