Following the recent advances in southern Idlib, Syrian government forces have established a fire control over the road between the towns of Abu al-Duhur and Maarat al-Nouman in southern Idlib. Government troops engaged units of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the village of Halban and de-facto cut off the road between the militant-held towns.
Should Halban fall into the hands of the Syrian Army and its allies, government forces would be able to isolate Abu al-Duhur from the western flank in order to searapte this strategic point from the rest of militant-held area in Idlib.
