The Turkestan’s attack leaves 8 casualties of the regime forces in the Latakia mountains less than a month after the most violent attack in the province in 3 years
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the killing of at least 8 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them including an officer, during the attack that was carried out by the Islamic Turkestani Party and supporting Islamic factions, on positions of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in al-Sarraf area in Jabal al-Turkman, in the morning of Tuesday, the 7th of August of 2018, where violent clashes took place, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the Turkestani Islamic Party and other supporting Islamic factions, in al-Sarraf area in Jabal al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Latakia, as a result of an attack by factions in the area, where the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting in the clash areas between both parties. These clashes –which caused confirmed casualties in the ranks of both parties- came after artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces targeted areas Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman, which caused material damage but no information about casualties.
The attack comes less than a month after the most violent and sudden attack in the past 3 years in Latakia mountains, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of at least 27 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them including 8 officers, who were killed in the shelling and the violent clashes in the vicinity of the Syrian border with Iskenderun at the night of Monday, the 9th of July 2018, and the violent and sudden attack by the factional had also injured more than 40 others of members of the regime forces and their allies.
In the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the renew of artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces, on areas in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur on the road reaching the Latakia mountains, within the Triangle of west Idlib – Lattakia mountains – Sahl al-Ghab, which caused more damage and destruction in the property of citizens, but no information about injuries yet, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the regime forces targeted areas in Bidama town which is located in the western sector of Jisr Al-Shughur countryside in the western sector of Idlib countryside, which resulted in the break out of fires in the property of the citizens, without information about resulting in fall of casualties, and this targeting came as a part of the ongoing escalation on the abovementioned triangle, where the Syrian Observatory monitored hours ago, that the explosions are still being heard in the triangle of Jisr Al-Shughur – Hama countryside – Lattakia countryside, caused by targeting by the regime forces by more of shells to areas in Al-Lataminah town and its vicinity in the northern countryside of Hama, and other areas in Zayzoun Station in Sahl Al-Ghab, in the north-western countryside of Hama, along with sporadic shelling by the regime forces on several areas in the north-eastern countryside of Lattakia and other areas in the western countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur, also The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that more explosions shook the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, caused by the continued shelling by the regime forces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored targeting by the regime forces fort areas in Qarqour village and its surroundings in Sahl al-Ghab at the northwestern countryside of Hama, within the triangle of Sahl al-Ghab – Lattakia Mountain – west Idlib.