The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Exchanged targeting on frontlines in “Putin-Erdogan” area | Member of “Ansar Al-Tawheed” jihadist faction injured

A member of “Ansar Al-Tawheed” jihadist faction was injured in an artillery shelling carried out by regime forces targeting Al-Fatirah, Fuleiful and Sufuhan villages in Jabal Al-Zawiyah, south of Idlib.
Regime forces stationed at the checkpoints surrounding “Putin-Erdogan” area also fired heavy artillery shells on the vicinity of Al-Qasr and Kafar Aamah villages in the western countryside of Aleppo.
Al-Kabanah frontline in Jabal Al-Akrad, north of Latakia, witnessed exchanged targeting with mortar shells, between regime forces and factions of “Al-Fatah Al-Mubin”. Only material damage was reported.
Since early 2023, SOHR has documented 356 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks, gunfire by snipers and bombardment, which left 546 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 243 combatants and 185 civilians, including 21 women and 42 children, injured.
The fatalities can be distributed as follows:
• 95 civilians, including 12 women, 36 children and a civil defence member, were killed by regime forces.
• 343 members of regime forces, including 23 officers.
• An Afghan militiaman of “Liwaa Fatemiyoun.”
• A member of the Syrian Hezbollah.
• 80 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, including a French jihadist.
• 14 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.”
• Five members of the “National Liberation Front.”