The regime forces continue with their allies their operations in the southern countryside of Aleppo and control more areas coming from the countryside of Idlib

Aleppo province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces supported by their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham and factions backing it in areas in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces managed to advance and control 5 villages and areas today, expanding their areas of control from the new area of attacking in an attempt to advance and control more area, and reducing the areas controlled by Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham after they managed to control since the 10th of January 2018 tens of towns and villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo.

The SOHR published yesterday that the regime forces continue their advancement operations supported by gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in the southern countryside of Aleppo, where they managed to achieve a wide advancement at the expense of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, which in 4 consecutive days has withdrawn from tens of villages and towns in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and the regime forces were able through this advancement in the last 24 hours; to expand their control in the southern countryside of Aleppo to more than 3 times the number of villages they used to controlled in the southern countryside of Aleppo two days ago, where the regime forces in the last 24 hours have taken control of 79 villages and towns, including the towns of al-Hajib and Tal al-Daman, thus, the regime forces have expanded their control in the southern countryside of Aleppo since the start of advancing in the area to about 115 towns and villages, which were successively controlled after a successive withdrawal of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham from the area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Saturday that the advancement in the southern countryside of Aleppo towards the eastern countryside of Idlib and Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase, reduced the distance between the advanced forces and the other forces located in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and a distance of only 6 kilometers still separates between the both forces, while these military operations in the area resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of citizens from their villages and houses towards areas far from the shelling in the western countryside of Aleppo, and if the regime forces manage to reach their forces located in the vicinity of Abu Al-Duhur Airbase in the eastern countryside of Idlib, then they will impose a siege over more than 35 villages stretched inside the adjacent administrative border of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces used intensive firepower in their advancement, in which the regime forces depended on the intensive shelling by tanks, artillery and mortar shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, as well as bombardment by the regime’s helicopters and warplanes affiliated to the regime and Russia by missiles, bombs and explosive barrels, which caused great material destruction to the infrastructure, and resulted in the death and the injury of tens of members in the ranks of the both parties.