The factions continue advancing in the countryside of Idlib and control a new village expanding their controlled areas
Idlib provinces – The Syrian Observatory Human Rights:: warplanes shelled areas in Ma’ret Al-Noaman city, causing material damage, and there is information about injuries, while the clashes are still ongoing between the regime forces backed by their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, against the Islamic and rebel factions, Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, and Islamic Turkistan Party in areas in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, where the factions managed to advance and control a new villages, with the ongoing advancement in the area, and the clashes are also taking place in several other areas between both parties, amid heavy shelling in areas in the vicinity of Atshan, which is controlled by the factions hours ago.
Thus, the areas controlled have expanded to 22 villages and areas, which were controlled today and yesterday. They are ((Sham Al-Hawa, Atashan, Al-Zafr Kabir, Al-Zafr Al-Shagher, al-Hisa, Tal Salmu, Al-Dabashiya, Al-Khawain, Tal Maraq, Mushrifa Shamali, Jadaniyah, Al-Ubaidah, Umm Al-Khalakhil, Khirbet, Rabia, Tel Khazna, Al-Zarzor, Al-Hussein Farms, IStablat, Rasm Al-Ward)), while the factions continue their attacks towards Al-Hamdaniyah village, and Al-Salumiyah, Sham Al-Hawa, Al-Gadouia, Al-Nadaf Farms, in order to restore control and expand their control large areas in the areas.
The SOHR published today morning that violent clashes between both parties that caused more human losses in ranks of both parties. While at least 177 people, the death toll of members of the regime forces and the factions, who have been killed since Wednesday evening, the 10th of January, 2018. It also rose to 82, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, including 6 officers, including 3 colonels, one of them is close to Suhail Al-Hassan, and it rose to at least 95 fighters of the factions, including 6 commanders, who were killed in the same clashes. The death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured persons in serious conditions, and the factions managed to capture 31 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, in addition to tens of members of Turkestan Islamic Movement, who were also killed in the latest battles.