[NPASYRIA] Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
 ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front) killed on Monday three troops, including an officer, of the Syrian government forces in Aleppo and Idlib governorates, northwestern Syria.
Militants of the HTS sniped three troops, including an officer, of the government forces, and injured two others in the Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, and Basratun, west of Aleppo, a military source of the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room told North Press.
The source added that factions of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition, also known the Syrian National Army (SNA), managed to destroy two positions of the government forces that contained thermal equipment; one in al-Malaja axis, south of Idlib, and the other in the Regiment 46, west of Aleppo.
In the meantime, another military source said the government forces intensified their shelling on areas in the south of Idlib, including al-Bara, Sfuhen, Fatterah, Kansafra, and Benin.
Another source indicated that the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, a coalition of several SNA factions, targeted positions of the government forces in the southern countryside of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo with heavy artillery and missiles.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment between Syrian government forces and opposition factions accompanied by Russian warplanes’ flight despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
reached an agreement in Moscow that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway. 
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