Latakia frontlines | Two regime soldiers ki*lled

Latakia province: Two regime soldiers were killed by snipers of “HTS,” on the frontline of Kabbanah in Jabal Al-Akrad in northern Latakia countryside.

On a related level, regime forces stationed at checkpoints around “Putin-Erdogan” area have bombarded Duweir Al-Akrad village in the northern countryside of Latakia, near of administrative borders with Hama province.

Moreover, “Putin-Erdogan” area is witnessing exchange of snipping and infiltration operations between regime and factions now and again.

On January 5, SOHR activists reported that an “HTS” member was killed in an exchange of artillery fire between regime forces and factions of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room on the frontline of the 46th Regiment in the western countryside of Aleppo.

Also, a regime soldier was killed in an exchange of artillery and rocket fire between “HTS” and regime forces on the frontline of Idlib countryside, in “Putin-Erdogan” area.

Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 33 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 87 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 48 combatants and six civilians, including children, injured.

The fatalities can be distributed as follows:

• Three civilians were killed by regime forces.

• 59 members of regime forces, including five officers.

• 23 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, including a French jihadist.

• Two members of the jihadist faction of “Ansar Al-Tawheed.”