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| 70 Syrian soldiers killed in Nusra-led attack near Idlib |
| 2015-04-23 |
| [AraNews] Militant fighters of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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 (Syria's branch of al-Qaeda) were reportedly engaged in festivities against Syrian regime forces in the countryside of Idlib. The festivities took place in the city of Ariha of Idlib province during the last two days. Pro-Nusra sources reported the death of at least 70 soldiers of the regime's army during the festivities. The al-Nusra Front issued a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying that a number of jihadists (jacket wallahs) were able to infiltrate a regime-held military center in Ariha city, west of Idlib, and carry out "a strategic operation against the Syrian regime forces and Shiite militias there". The Front confirmed that its fighters fought fierce festivities with what it called "thugs" who were stationed in a secondary-school building and a health clinic in the city, adding that two of their fighters carried out a "jihadist" operation in the regime-held center. "The operation resulted in the death of more than 70 soldiers, including fighters from the Lebanese Shiite faceless myrmidons of Hezbollah who support the Syrian regime in those areas," the statement added. Ariha is a strategic city held by the Syrian regime in the countryside of Idlib, through which the road linking Aleppo and Latakia on the Mediterranean coast passes, which is deemed a major supply line for the regime forces in Aleppo. The Syrian armed opposition factions backed by Islamic Brigades and the al-Nusra Front took control of the city of Idlib last March after forming a Joint Operations Chamber under the name of the "al-Fateh Army". |
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