Idlib battles turn into hit-and-run attacks and exchange of control and the regime forces restore control over villages they lost, and squadron of warplane shell Idlib countryside
About 50 members and fighters were killed and captivated during hours of violent attacks by the rebel and Islamic faction southeast of Idlib
Squadron of warplanes is flying in the sky of Idlib countryside, amid more airstrikes on areas in it, where the SOHR monitored the warplanes targeting areas in villages and town of Al-Hamdiya, Al-Tah, Tahtaya Jerjenaz, and Saraqeb, in addition to targeting areas of clashs taking place between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamic factions in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, and the clashes have turned into hit-and-run battles and an exchange of control between both parties, where the regime forces continue their rebl attacks and advance in the area. The regime forces restored control over the villages of Al-Salumiya, Al-Gadoiya, Al-Hamdaniya, and Al-Khawin, while the SOHR monitored the clashes were concentrated in the vicinity of Umm Haratin, in the outskirts og the northeastern countryside of Hama, near the administrative borders with Idlib countryside, amid ongoing and desperate attempts by the regime force to expand their areas of control and restore control in areas they lost in the attack carried out today’s morning by the factions of Noor Al-Din Al-Zinky Movement, Jaysh al-Ahrar, Al-Rahman Corps, Jaysh Al-Izza, Jaysh Idlib, Jaysh Al-Nokhba, Second Army, JAysh Al-Nasr, Islamic Turkestan Party and Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic Movement.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented human losses in the ranks of both parties in these violent battles, exchange of targeting, and heavy shelling in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 12 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, and others have been injured, while more than 17 other members of the regime forces and allies were captured, while it rose to 19, including 3 commanders, the number of fighters of the faction who were killed and documented so far in the ongoing battles since the dawn until now.
The SOHR published on Wednesday that the regime forces and their allies managed to expand their controlled villages to at least 117 in the countryside of Idlib since the start of escalation of military operations of the regime forces on the 25nd of December 2017 to 160 villages and towns in the countryside of Idlib and Hama , and they are: “Tel Salmo, Zafr Sagher, Zafar Kabir, Al-Dabshiya, Rasm Abed, Talb, Mera’aya, Al-Hisa, Om Jrin, Bayya’a Saghira, Bayya’a Kabira, Jub Abyad, Al-Bowayder, Aqlat Al-Bowayder, Raefah, Aziza, Rasm Nayas, Ras al-Ayn, Rasm Al-Jahsh, Om Tammakh, Rasm Al-Khshuf, Mbawas, Rasm Al-Burj, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm Al-Ayn, al-Jabriya, Khariba, Rasm Al-War, Harmla. Al-Ouja, Tel Al-Ouja, Karaten Kabira, KAratin Saghera, Surouj, Adlya, Warida, Rasm Hamida, Rabia, Stablat, Haradana, Ajaz, Khirbet Abu Aniya, Khirabt Yashout, Abu Tahiha, Farja, Mardaghana, Al-Juhman, Al-Daoudiyah, Raba Al-Hawa, Abu Al-Aleej, Jab Al-Qasab, Maksar Al-Fouqani, Maksar Al-Tahtani, Bashkun, Nabaz Qabli, Nabaz Shamali, Jadida, Ramla, Sinjara, Sera’, Sarie, Kafria, Al-Mutwasta, Khayyara, Sarja Sharqiya, 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, AbuOmar, 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.