With the mediation of a faction backed by a regional country…the abolition war is ceased for 48 hours after a series of mediations in the wake of clashes killed about 330 citizens and fighters
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored calm prevailing Idlib countryside and the western countryside of Aleppo, since today morning, Friday the 9th of March 2018, after fighting which lasted for 18 consecutive days between the major factions of the Syrian North, within the abolition war between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement and Suqour Al-Sham, which resulted in the fall of a large number of human losses in the ranks of the both parties, during which hit-and-run clashes and exchange of control took place, where the SOHR documented the death of 21 citizens including 8 children and 5 women, who have been killed since the start of the fighting on the 20th of February 2018, as a result of shelling and random shootings in the countryside of both Aleppo and Idlib, and the SOHR also documented that 178 members at least of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were killed during the shelling and clashes against Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in the western countryside of Aleppo, and against Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham in Idlib countryside, and 129 fighters of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement ,Ahrar Al-Sham and Soqur Al-Sham, who were killed during the shelling and clashes in the area, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of a large number of injuries, some of them have seriously wounded, in addition to information about other casualties the SOHR is not able to document so far.
The reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that this calm came in the wake of reaching an agreement between the both conflicting parties, after a series of mediations during the period of the bloody fighting between the both parties, where the agreement provides for a cessation of fighting between the both parties for 48 hours, from today morning, Friday the 9th of March 2018, until Sunday the 11th of the same month, and for stopping, during this period, all of instigative campaigns of the “official, corresponding and alternative” media of these conflicting factions, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that this mediation took place through Al-Sham Corps supported by a regional country.
It is noteworthy that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham restored the first and second countryside of Al-Mohandessin, Al-Atibaa countryside, Skeikh Ali, the Regiment 46, Tadil, Ajil, Urum al-Sughrah, Taqad, Kafr Nuran, Al-Tawameh, Kafr Karmin, Kafrnaha checkpoint, Maarat Al-Na’san, Miznaz, Al-Qanater checkpoint, they also managed to restore the areas of Zardana, Ram Hamdan, Hizreh, Kafr Yahmoule, Maarrat Misrin, Turmanin, Taladah, Deir Hassan, Qah, Kafrluseen, Aqrabat and Atma, while the SOHR obtained a copy of a video showing a commander in Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, called “Abu Al-Yaqazan Al-Masri”, a commander of the rebel attack of Tahrir Al-Sham, while he was delivering a speech to a group of fighters of the Hayyaat during the fighting and saying that “O, People of Al-Sham, Allah has honored you to witness the fighting against the Americans, the Russians, the apostates of Bashar Army, those who spread corruption in the lands, the Khawarij, and the corrupts. The end is near and the ranks are becoming clear, and the fighting will continue until this area turns back to a battlefield against the infidels. Noor Al-Din Al-Zenki Movement didn’t open a new battlefront and it sent 40 fighters to a position in Skaik area, but they withdrew after 10 days. The weapons were obtained to be used in Jihad and kept stored for a year and will come out to be used in Jihad, tanks, tracked vehicles, warehouses of Ahrar Al-Sham became under our control and the Jihad in the Levant is a faith, don’t lose it”.