Infiltration operation in northern Latakia foiled | Five members of regime forces and Hezbollah killed and four HTS members injured

SOHR sources have reported that five members of regime forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah were killed and four members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham were injured, one seriously, following an attack carried out by regime forces and Hezbollah on Nahshaba frontline in northern Latakia.

 

According to SOHR sources, the attack was foiled and regime forces failed to advance into the frontline. Meanwhile, groups of regime forces are attempting to retrieve the bodies of three soldiers, amid attacks by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and artillery fire by “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room targeting those groups.

 

Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 232 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 347 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 201 combatants and 78 civilians, including 11 women and 26 children, injured.

 

The fatalities can be distributed as follows:

 

• 26 civilians, including four women, seven children and a civil defence member, were killed by regime forces.

 

• 237 members of regime forces, including 16 officers.

 

• An Afghan militiaman of “Liwaa Fatemiyoun.”

 

• A member of the Syrian Hezbollah.

 

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

 

• 12 members of the jihadist faction of “Ansar Al-Tawhid.”

 

• One member of “Ahrar Al-Sham” movement.

 

• Two members of “Al-Sham Corps.”

 

• One member of “Hurras Al-Din” organisation.

 

• The Commander-in-chief of Russian Special Tasks Forces.

 

• A militiaman of the Iranian-backed “Liwaa Al-Baqer.”

 

• A member of “Soqour Al-Sham.”

 

• A member of the “National Liberation Front.”