Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and supporting factions have cut off Damascus-Aleppo international highway (M5) near Al-Zarbah town in Aleppo countryside. Rebels also took control of the point where M4 and M5 highways meets near Saraqeb city, blocking the two highways, which had been reopened by regime forces a few years ago.
It is worth noting that military battles between Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions on one hand, and regime forces and their proxy militias on the other have intensified in Aleppo and Idlib countryside since the early hours of Wednesday morning, November 27. The military battles have left 182 combatants dead until now; they are distributed as followed:
-121 rebels:
- 102 HTS members.
- 19 members of the “National Army” factions.
-61 members of regime forces and their proxy militias:
- 40 members of regime forces, including four officers.
- Six Iranian-backed militiamen.
- 15 militiamen of different nationalities, including an Iranian advisor.
Unconfirmed information has been reported about more fatalities of different nationalities among Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, but SOHR sources have not verified their identities so far.
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