Idlib .. Regime forces control Khan Sheikhoun and besieged a Turkish observation point

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that Syrian regime forces took control of the city of Khan Sheikhoun in the southern countryside of Idlib on Friday, besieging the northern countryside of Hama and the city of Mork, as well as the ninth Turkish observation post in the area.

He also reported that three civilians were killed and others were injured after Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs targeting residential neighborhoods in Ma'rat Al-Nouman city in the southern countryside of Idlib.

The correspondent pointed out that Russian and Syrian raids targeted villages and towns of Telmanes, Deir Sharqi, Ma'rshurin, Jergnaz and Ghudfa in the eastern countryside of Idlib.

According to al-Jazeera sources, regime forces took control of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib countryside.

On the other hand, the official agency "SANA" said that the Syrian forces took control of a hill grazing in Idlib countryside, thus encircling the cities and towns of the northern countryside of Hama near the ninth Turkish observation post.

Syrian state television also reported that Syrian forces had imposed a "stifling cordon" on opposition fighters in a group of towns in the north-western countryside of Hama and advanced in the area.

The station said in a live broadcast from Khan Sheikhoun that Syrian forces had taken control of more than a dozen hills and expanded their control on a main road there, adding that most of the area - which includes a few cities and its suburbs and has been under opposition control for years - is now either under the control of Syrian forces or in Its fire range.

Battles and displacement
On the other hand, fighting continued in Lattakia countryside between regime forces and the opposition. Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the opposition was able to stop the regime's progress in the Kabina area of ​​Lattakia countryside.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Syria reported that more than fifty thousand civilians were displaced during the last 24 hours from the southern and eastern rural Idlib.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that the Syrian regime arrested more than 1,900 refugees after their return from the countries of asylum to the country.

She added that 15 refugees were killed under torture in the regime's prisons, which posed a major threat to the refugees because of its repressive practices against them, which included arrest, torture, confiscation of property, and forced youth to conscription.