Violent fighting takes place between the regime forces and their allied against Idlib factions and Tahrir Al-Sham in the southeastern countryside of the province

Idlib province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: a man died affected by his injuries he received in shelling by the regime forces today morning that targeted areas in the city of Jisr Al-Shoghour in the western countryside of Idlib, while warplanes dropped baskets on the towns of Kafria and Foua in the northeastern countryside of Idlib, at today’s noon, while the violent clashes are still ongoing in Tel Marq area since today’s morning, in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, between the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham and Turkistan Islamic Party  against the regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, and there is information about more human losses in the ranks of both parties, amid and advancement by the regime forces and there is information about controlling the villages of Atshan, which was controlled by the regime forces yesterday.

The Syrian Observatory monitored yesterday the regime forces regaining control of 2 villages of which the factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the Islamic Turkestani Party controlled hours ago. And with regime’s re-control of these two villages, the factions remain in control of 20 villages and area, they are:  (Zafar Sagher, Zafar Kabir, Al-Hisa, Tel Salmo, Talab, Al-Dabshiya, Suruj, Al-Khawin, Tel Marq, Mushayrifa Shamali, Al-Jad’aniyya, Al-Lobayda, Umm Al-Khalakhil, Khariba, Rabia, Tell Khaznah, Al-Zarzor, Al-Hussein Farms, Stablat, Rasm Al-Ward), also it rose to 201 at least, the number of members of the regime forces and the factions, who have been killed since Wednesday evening, the 10th of January, 2018, where it rose to 94, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, including 6 officers and 3 of them are Brigadier Generals, and one of them is close to Suhail Al-Hassan, also it rose to at least 107 fighters of the factions, including 6 commanders, the number of fighters 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.