The regime forces and their allies take the control of 14 villages and become at about 11 km away from Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase and block the way against the advancement of the organization into Idlib province

The intensive and violent shelling by the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities is continuing, in conjunction with intensive raids by warplanes and helicopters affiliated to the regime and Russia on 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 enabled them to control 14 villages after intensive shelling forced Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham to withdraw after it failed to hold its positions in these villages due to the violent and intensive shelling and the small size of these villages, which are: Ejaz, Kharbat Abu Aniyyah, Kharbat Yashut, Abu Tahiha, Farja, Mardagana, Jahman, Al-Dawdiyyah, Rob’ Al-Hawa, Abul Eleij, Jeb Elqasab, , Maksar Foqani, Maksar Tahtani and Bashkun, which enabled the regime forces to complete their control over the administrative border of the south-eastern countryside of Idlib with the north-eastern countryside of Hama province almost completely, thus, they blocked the way against the advancement of the organization which is still presented in villages in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, preventing it to enter Idlib province or to go deep into it.

And with this advancement, the regime forces led by the Brigadier Suhail Al-Hassan, known as the “Tiger”, managed rapidly to expand their scope of control during 15 days of the advancement accompanied by intensive and violent aerial and ground shelling, and they have controlled 78 villages and towns since the 25th of December 2017, the date of starting the escalation after Suhail Al-Hassan was assigned to lead the operations in the area, and they also reached a distance of about 11 km away from Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase which is one of the main goals of this military campaign, while the regime forces and their allies have expanded their control in Hama and Idlib countryside since the start of the operations on the 22nd of October 2017, to 117 villages and towns they are: “Ejaz, Kharbat Abu Aniyyah, Kharbat Yashut, Abu Tahiha, Farja, Mardagana, Jahman, Al-Dawdiyyah, Rob’ Al-Hawa, Abul Eleij, Jeb Elqasab, , Maksar Foqani, Maksar Tahtani, Bashkun, Nabbaz Qebli, Nabbaz Shamali, Jadidah, Sraa’, Srie’, al-Khyara, al-Motawassita and Kfraya, Sinjar, Sarja Sharqiya, Um Al-Halalil, Um Mwailat, Al-Sheikh Baraka, 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, Qbibat Um Al-Huda, 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 Shawi, Tel Mahsar, Al-Rabia, Douma, Rabda, Al-Hazm, Arafa, Marijib Al-Jamlan, Al-Khafiya, Marijab Al-Jamlan, Sham Al-Hawa, Al-Rahraha, Sarha”.