The regime forces advance with their allies in 30 villages during 12 hours within 3 provinces expanding their control during 29 days to 322 villages and towns
The regime forces continuing their advance in the adjacent countryside which are the southern countryside of Aleppo, the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and the eastern and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored since yesterday Sunday the 21st of January 2018, that the regime forces managed to achieve wide advancement in villages controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and other villages used to be controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, which it is believed that Tahrir Al-Sham withdrew from within the past dew days, in which the regime forces have advanced in 22 villages at least inside the besieged pocket in Hama, Idlib and Aleppo countryside, and also advanced in the southern countryside of Aleppo in 6 villages at the expense of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in addition to advancing in 2 villages in the north-eastern countryside of Hama at the expense of the “Islamic State” organization, thus, the number of the villages which the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities advanced in during the past 12 hours, has increased to 30 villages at least, expanding their scope of control to 322 villages and towns during 29 days of combat operations and the start of escalating the attack in Hama, Idlib and Aleppo countryside, the largest number of these villages were within Aleppo province followed by Idlib and then Hama province, since the start of the operation of taking the control of Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase, until the regime forces held their control over the airbase and started to sweep it, preparing for repairing it and using it as a military base, in 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 and other provinces at that time.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that these violent battles and advancement by the regime forces were accompanied by unprecedented heavy fire power used by the regime forces targeting villages, towns and cities in the countryside of Idlib by hundreds of raids, barrel bombs, shells and missiles, believed to be ground to ground, leaving hundreds of people killed and injured, in which the SOHR documented the death of 126 civilians, including at least 40 children below the age of 18 and 30 women citizens over the 18, since the 25th of December until today, while tens of others were injured with permanent disabilities and sever injuries, which may increase the death toll, and the shelling also caused destruction of hundreds of houses and shops and properties, in addition to the damage to destruction in the infrastructure of areas which witnessed heavy shelling, in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, and the battles that took place between Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, Islamic Turkestan, Noor Al-Din Al-Zenki Movement, Jaysh Al-Ahrar, Al-Sham Corps, Jaysh Al-Izza, Free Jaysh Idlib, Jaysh Al-Nokhaba, Al-Jaysh Al-Thani, Jaysh Al-Nasr, Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic Movement, against the regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, caused human losses in the ranks of both parties, where the SOHR documented the death of 518 fighters and members who were killed within 28 members of the violent battles that took place in areas northeast of Hama and the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo. They are 221 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities including at least 20 officers, while 297 fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, Turkestan Islamic Party, including at least 103 fighters of non-Syrian nationalities of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham and Turkestan Islamic Party, and hundreds of both parties were inured with different severity, due to the artillery and aerial shelling, clashes and an exchange of targeting on the clash areas.
The SOHR also monitored displacement of tens of thousands in the province of Idlib and the countryside of Hama and Aleppo towards the countryside of Idlib, and the number of displaced people reached more than 170 thousand, who were displaced from villages, towns and Abu Duhur area and the area of Sinjar, Saraqeb and the countryside of Ma’erat Al-Noa’man and the southern countryside of Idlib witnessed the displacement from the northern and northeastern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Aleppo, towards the center and the north of Idlib, where the civilians tried to flee for their lives and reach areas far from the death, amid bad humanitarian condition and shortage in areas of the displaced and lack of food to meet their needs, and the SOHR monitored the citizens displaced the countryside of Idlib from the houses to plastic houses, which are used for planting of vegetable, to flee the cold, rains, and bad weather in the area.