Thread by @putintintin1

#Syria Today
-Regime is in control of all M4 highway after capturing Rashedeen Housing in West #Aleppo
-Opposition groups launched an attack against regime in #Saraqib front S #Idlib
-no TSK artillery involvement in the attack YET, only opposition shelling

CORRECTION: regime captured M5 highway connecting Aleppo to Damascus not the M4

#Syria yesterday the regime forces (Iranian-backed) advanced in Miznaz in south al-Atareb and now is 23km away from Bab al-Hawa\ Cilvegözü border crossing

#Syria several opposition media confirmed regime helicopter shot down over al-Nayrab front west #Saraqib in south #Idlib

#Syria according to opposition sources; this was the helicopter which was shot down over al-Nayrab, Sentry Syria said it is similar to the ones carrying barrel bombs (Mi-8 or Mi-24) flying over Sarmin at 11:35

#Syria photos published by HTS media agency (Ebaa) of the helicopter seconds after being shot down over #Idlib

#Syria video of the helicopter after it was hit

#Syria according to opposition sources: most of al-Nayrab village in west #Saraqib under opposition control after regime forces withdrew

#Syria #Idlib pro-regime media confirmed the following pilots were in the helicopter and were killed:
Brigadier Pilot Sharaf Izzedin (left)
Major pilot Sharaf Hallaq (up)
Pilot Bashar Samra (down)

#Syria Pilot Bashar Samra posted a picture on his fb account on 3 February 2016 a photo of him with Qasem Soleimani in what appears to be an airplane #QasemSoleimani

photo of Suheil al-Hasan in the same helicopter

#Syria another provocation by the regime; regime airstrike hit meters away from the Turkish observation post in Qaminas south #Idlib city