The regime forces advance at the expense of the “Islamic State” organization and clamp down more on it

Clashes continue violently between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization, in places in the northeastern countryside of Hama and the countryside adjacent to it south of Aleppo and southeast of Idlib, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces being able to achieve a large advancement at the expense of the organization, where they have taken control of tens of villages in the last 24 hours, and decreased the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas in these three provinces, which is the besieged pocket in which the organization is located, clamping down even more on the organization, and the Syrian Observatory published on yesterday that the regime forces managed to advance in the area and 10 villages and farms in the north-eastern countryside of Hama and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, and the clashes were accompanied by exchange artillery and rocket shelling and intensive shelling by the regime forces on ISIS controlled areas, coincided with intensive raids and bombardment by the warplanes and helicopters, and with this advancement the regime forces regained the control of 19 villages and areas until now, used to be controlled by the organization. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the regime forces managed during their attack in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, to advance with their allies and take the control of two new villages, after the bombardment which targeted the area today morning, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Sunday that the bombardment concentrated today Sunday the 4th of February 2018, on ISIS-held areas in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib and the north-eastern countryside of Hama, as the warplanes and helicopters carried out a series of intensive strikes today morning Sunday the 4th of February 2018, through which they targeted the vicinity of Tal Halawah, Hawayiz, Qasr Ibn Wardan, and other positions controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib and the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and no information about casualties was reported yet, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Saturday that the violent clashes renewed in areas in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, between the members of the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in a new attack by the latter on the positions of the former, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces managed to achieve new advancement in the area, and take the control of 4 villages and hills surrounding these villages, these clashes are accompanied by shelling and exchange of targeting between the both parties, and with this new advancement by the regime forces, the number of the villages which the regime forces have controlled at the expense of the organization has increased to 7 villages since last Thursday and until now.