Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for human rights: the regime forces supported by gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities continue their advancement operations in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces achieving an important advancement from the southern countryside of Aleppo towards the eastern countryside of Idlib, where the regime forces have advanced towards their forces located near Abu Al-Duhur Airbase and in its vicinity in the eastern countryside of Idlib, after they managed to control tens of villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces advancing from the south of Aleppo towards the eastern countryside of Idlib; coming from the area between Tal al-Daman and Khanaser, where one village separates the regime forces from meeting and trapping the “Islamic State” organization and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Shams in about 78 villages in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, where the regime forces will besiege about 35 villages controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and in parts of the northeastern countryside of Hama and the eastern countryside of Idlib adjacent to the administrative border of Aleppo, in addition to besieging the “Islamic State” organization in 43 other villages in the northern eastern countryside of Hama and the outskirts of Idlib countryside, where the regime forces led by the Brigadier Suhail Hasan are carrying out this dividing operation in order to control as much space as possible during the shortest amount of time and with the least possible casualties, also this advancement came after the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities failed to advance in the battle that started from Khanaser area on the 2nd of November 2017.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday night that the regime forces continue their advancement operations supported by gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in the southern countryside of Aleppo, where they managed to achieve a wide advancement at the expense of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, which in 4 consecutive days has withdrawn from tens of villages and towns in the southern countryside of Aleppo, and the regime forces were able through this advancement in the last 24 hours; to expand their control in the southern countryside of Aleppo to more than 3 times the number of villages they used to controlled in the southern countryside of Aleppo two days ago, where the regime forces in the last 24 hours have taken control of 79 villages and towns, including the towns of al-Hajib and Tal al-Daman, thus, the regime forces have expanded their control in the southern countryside of Aleppo since the start of advancing in the area to about 115 towns and villages, which were successively controlled after a successive withdrawal of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham from the area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Saturday that the advancement in the southern countryside of Aleppo towards the eastern countryside of Idlib and Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase, reduced the distance between the advanced forces and the other forces located in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and a distance of only 6 kilometers still separates between the both forces, while these military operations in the area resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of citizens from their villages and houses towards areas far from the shelling in the western countryside of Aleppo, and if the regime forces manage to reach their forces located in the vicinity of Abu Al-Duhur Airbase in the eastern countryside of Idlib, then they will impose a siege over more than 35 villages stretched inside the adjacent administrative border of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces used intensive firepower in their advancement, in which the regime forces depended on the intensive shelling by tanks, artillery and mortar shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, as well as bombardment by the regime’s helicopters and warplanes affiliated to the regime and Russia by missiles, bombs and explosive barrels, which caused great material destruction to the infrastructure, and resulted in the death and the injury of tens of members in the ranks of the both parties.