Ongoing escalation | Three regime soldiers kil*led in cla*shes with H*T*S west of Aleppo

Violent clashes erupted in the early hours of Thursday, between “Omar Bin Al-Khatab” brigade of “HTS” on one hand, and regime forces and their loyalist gunmen on the other hand, on the frontline of Al-Wasatah in the western countryside of Aleppo, within “Putin-Erdogan” area. This coincided with the exchange of artillery and rocket bombardment.
The clashes resulted in the death of one member of “HTS” and three regime soldiers.
Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 104 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 193 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 103 combatants and 30 civilians, including two women and other children, injured.
The fatalities can be distributed as follows:
• Seven civilians were killed by regime forces.
• 141 members of regime forces, including nine officers.
• One Afghani member of “Fatemyoun” militia.
• 39 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, including a French jihadist.
• Two members of the jihadist faction of “Ansar Al-Tawheed.
• One member of “Ahrar Al-Sham” movement.
• One member of “Al-Sham Corps.”
• One member of “Hurras Al-Din” organisation