The regime forces with their allies impose their full control over Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase and head to the town located in its west in order to control it

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the regime forces managed to impose their control over Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase completely, after violent fighting and continuous attack since this morning on the area, where the SOHR monitored that the regime forces managed to impose their control over several areas surrounding the airbase in its southern, northern and eastern sides, through wrapping around it and advance from the southern countryside of Aleppo towards the eastern countryside of Idlib, and the SOHR also learned that the violent clashes are still continuing are still continuing between the both parties in areas in the west of Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase, in the area between the airbase and Abu Al-Duhur town which is one of the main towns in the eastern countryside of Idlib, while the clashes are accompanied by exchange of targeting and shelling between the both parties, coincided with starting the regime forces to sweep the airbase which the regime forces lost their control over on the 1st third of September 2015, following a sudden attack by Hayaat Tahir Al-Sham and the factions in the area, making use of the bad weather and sand storm that hit the province of Idlib at that time, where the regime forces lost their last positions in the province of Idlib, and at that time they only controlled the towns of Kafria and Foua, which are mostly inhabited by Shiite people, and controlled by the National Defense Forces and Popular Committees. It is noteworthy that Abu Dhuhur has been besieged for more than 2 years by Nusra Front and the Islamic factions until they controlled it in 2015, and the air base was out of services and the regime forces stationed there and the warplanes were not able to implement any military operation out of it.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented hundreds of the fighters and the members in the ranks of the both parties who were killed, injured and captured in the latest week of clashes, in which it has increased to 354 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 146, the number of members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen, including 17 officers and 3 of them are Brigadier Generals, and one of them is close to Suhail Al-Hassan, also it rose to at least 208 fighters of the factions, including 10 commanders at least, 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 35 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.