“De-escalation zone” | Kamikaze drones attack residential and military areas in Idlib countryside and rebels shell regime positions in Latakia countryside

A child was injured in an attack by a kamikaze drone launched from regime-controlled areas targeting a site in an agriculture land, where the child was working, near Al-Bara town in Idlib countryside.

 

Similarly, four other drones attacked military and civilian positions in the surrounding areas of Maarrat Al-Na’san town in Idlib countryside.

 

Meanwhile, rocket launchers belonging to factions of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room attacked regime positions in Al-Aydo village in the northern countryside of Latakia. However, no casualties have been reported.

 

Since early 2024, SOHR has documented 322 operations in the “de-escalation zone,” including attacks by ground forces, infiltration operations, gunfire by snipers, bombardment, clashes and kamikaze drone attacks, which left 359 combatants and civilians dead. In addition, these operations left over 134 combatants, including a Turkish soldier, and 164 civilians, including seven women and 40 children, injured.

 

The fatalities can be distributed as follows:

 

• 37 civilians, including 14 children and four women.

 

• 225 members of regime forces, including 26 officers.

 

• 79 members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham.

 

• Five members of “Ansar Al-Islam” faction.

 

• Two members of “Jaysh Al-Nasr.”

 

• Two members of “Jaysh Al-Ahrar.”

 

• Three jihadists, including a jihadist of Turkish descent.

 

• A member of “Al-Hamzah” Division.

 

• Three members of “Al-Sham Corps.”

 

• One member of the “Public Resistance” which operates under the banner of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room.

 

• One member of the “Thowwar Al-Sham” Battalion which operates under the banner of “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operations room.