The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces keep on trying to advance from the southeast of Hama to the northern countryside of Homs

Hama Province:
Clashes continue between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic Factions in several areas in the southeastern countryside of Hama, after an attack by the regime forces which enabled them to control the villages of the Rumaila, Zor Hanifa and Jorniyah and to get in and take positions in other villages, and information about more casualties in the ranks of both parties, the regime forces backed by warplanes and intense fir cover are trying to advance towards the administrative border with the northern countryside of Homs, and tighten up even more on this countryside, which in turn is witnessing for months violent clashes between both parties, accompanied by heavy shelling and renewed intense strikes by warplanes and helicopters on the villages and towns, while the Islamic factions targeted the “high-voltage cable line” -it supply Salamiyah area with electricity- which damaged it, also the regime forces bombed areas in the villages of al-Qarqour, Tal Waset and al-Qahera in Sahl al-Ghab at the northwestern countryside of Hama, no information about injuries, while the clashes renewed in the vicinity of Soran area in ​​the northern countryside of Hama between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against Jund Al-Aqsa Organization and several rebel and Islamic factions, amid of advancement the last mentioned and confirmed information about their control of a checkpoint used to be for the regime forces, where the factions are trying to achieve further advancement and control more positions and checkpoints for the regime forces in the area, the clashes accompanied by mutual shelling between both sides.