The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Clashes in the vicinity of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya in the countryside of Idlib between regime’s loyal gunmen and the factions besieging both towns

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: clashes of varying violence took place at midnight of yesterday and after it; between the rebel and Islamic factions against the local gunmen of Kafriya and al-Fu’ah towns, which are inhabited by Shiite citizens in the eastern countryside of Idlib, after an attack by the factions on the area, and information about casualties in the ranks of both parties as a result of the clashes and the shelling exchange between them using mortars and rocket shells, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 25th of June 2018 that clashes took place between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the vicinity of Al-Fu’ah, in the north-eastern countryside of Idlib, as a result of an attack by the factions, in an attempt to achieve further advancement, and the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 17th of June 2018 that areas in Kafriya and al-Fu’aa witnessed renewed clashes between both parties, the latest of which was last night, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that areas in the vicinity of the towns of Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah witnessed renewed clashes between fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties, without information about casualties, also the SOHR published on Wednesday morning, that the clashes were renewed at a very violent pace after midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, the 13th of June 2018, in areas in the vicinity and outskirts of the towns of Kafriya and al-Fu’ah, which were inhabited by Shiite citizens in the northeastern countryside of Idlib, between the local gunmen loyal to the regime forces against the Islamic factions, where the clashes were focused on the western and southern areas of the towns, in a renewed attack by the Islamic factions on the area which completed its first week, also the clashes were accompanied by exchange of shelling and targeting between both parties, in addition to the sound of explosions caused by the accompanied by fires in the contact areas, believed to be caused by IED detonations by the gunmen loyal to the regime, where the explosions and clashes have caused casualties in the ranks of both parties, where several fighters of the attacking factions were killed, and information about more casualties in the ranks of both parties, also several roads under the control of the factions were closed like the road of Ram Hamdan – Ma’arrat Mesrin, after being monitored by the machineguns of the local gunmen loyal to the regime during the clashes.