Amid bloody battles .. Syrian opposition takes strategic positions north of Hama

The Syrian armed opposition took control of sites described as strategic in the northern Hama countryside, amid bloody battles with the Syrian regime and its allies that left dozens dead on both sides.

And began several factions, including the Liberation of the Sham and the army of Azza late on Wednesday evening an attack that resulted in the control of the village of Hamamiyat hill and military sites.

In a statement carried by the German news agency, described the spokesman of the factions of the National Liberation Front, Naji Mustafa Hill Hamamiyat strategy because it oversees ways to supply forces of the Syrian regime.

The military spokesman of the Sham Liberation Organization, Abu Khaled al-Shami, told Agence France-Presse that the village of Hamamiyat was controlled and followed.

The armed factions took control of the village of Hamamiyat and nearby hill in the early hours of the morning after bloody clashes with the regime's forces and armed groups in which more than eighty elements were killed, according to activists.

The agency quoted a spokesman for the army of Azza Mustafa Maarati that the factions foiled five attempts by the regime forces backed by Russian fighters and elements of the Palestinian Jerusalem Brigade and the Lebanese Hezbollah to restore the village of Hammamat and beyond.

He said that the regime's aircraft and Russia launched dozens of raids on the region, adding that the opposition fighters had fortified their positions in the area they controlled, and talked about dozens of dead and wounded in the ranks of the regime forces and its allies, adding that the armed opposition is preparing to attack the town of Kranaz, .

Over the past few weeks, the armed opposition has repulsed anti-regime attacks aimed at reclaiming the villages of Jabain and Tal Mahl.

The forces of the regime began the end of April with the support of Russia, a large-scale military campaign on areas covered by the agreement to reduce the escalation in the countryside Idlib and Hama, Aleppo and Lattakia.

About 2,200 civilians, about a quarter of them civilians, were killed and about 300,000 civilians were displaced.

Bombing and bombing
In conjunction with the battles of the northern Hama countryside, Russian aircraft carried out raids on the town of Latamna in the north-western countryside of the province, killing a civilian.

Also renewed aerial bombardment of the countryside Idlib, resulting in five deaths, including a child in the city of Jisr al-Shughour, while 19 were wounded in raids targeting a village in the same area.

The city of Jisr al-Shughour was attacked yesterday by Russian and Syrian raids, some of which targeted a hospital in the city, which led to the suspension of work, and 13 civilians were killed and others injured in Jisr al-Shughour and other towns in rural Idlib.

In the northwestern countryside of Aleppo, al-Jazeera correspondent reported that nine civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed and others wounded by a car bomb explosion in the Ashrafieh district of Afrin city, which was seized by the Turkish army and armed Syrian opposition more than a year ago.

The explosion destroyed residential buildings, shops and a number of cars and motorcycles. The city of Afrin lies within the area known as the olive branch under the control of the Free Army with Turkish military support.

The bombing followed the recent bombings in the city of Bab and the town of Qabasin in the eastern suburb of Aleppo and resulted in the deaths and injuries of civilians.