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At least 22 members of the regime’s forces and combat factions, especially the hardline organization Haras al-Din, were killed during clashes in northwestern Syria, despite a ceasefire in effect two months ago, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday.
A ceasefire has been in place in Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces since March 6, followed by a massive attack by regime forces with Russia’s support, forcing nearly a million people to flee their areas. .
The observatory reported the murder of “15 members of the regime forces and loyal armed men, compared to seven guards from the” Haras al-Din “organization and extremist groups, as a result of violent clashes in the Sahel al-Ghab area “in the northwest field of Hama.
The death toll is “the highest since the truce came into force,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the observatory, told AFP, adding that “clashes broke out after midnight after factions attacked the positions of the forces of the regime. “
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Guardian Religion faction, which has some 1,800 fighters, including non-Syrian nationalities, is active in northwestern Syria. Fight with militant groups alongside the Al-Sham Liberation Headquarters (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), which is the most influential organization in Idlib.
The ongoing fight between the two sides is accompanied by intense missile attacks carried out by regime forces in and around the area and in the neighboring southern Idlib camp, according to the observatory.
The region has seen, since the truce declared by Moscow in support of Damascus and Ankara in support of the factions, intermittent clashes and mutual bombardment between the two sides, but the current battles are the “fiercest” according to the observatory.
Fighter jets from Damascus and its ally Moscow have been absent from the region’s atmosphere since the truce began, at a time when the United Nations has counted the return of approximately 120,000 people to their areas, while tens of thousands they are crowded in overcrowded camps, amid fear of a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the event of a new Corona virus.
Under the armistice agreement, Russia and Turkey will conduct joint patrols along a strategic international route that separates the control areas of the regime’s forces and factions, the last of which was three days ago.
The war in Syria killed more than 380,000 people, displaced millions, displaced more than half the population inside and outside the country, destroyed infrastructure, depleted the economy, and depleted various sectors.
