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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army artillery kills family of five near Zabadani as thousands flee assault
2015-08-02
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian army artillery has killed a family of 5 members in the mountainous town of Madhaya near the stricken city of Zabadani on the Lebanese border, activists said on Saturday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
thousands of families fled Zabadani and neighboring villages as fighting between Assad forces backed by Hezbollah and Salafist tough guys enters the fourth week amid rebels' stubborn.

Activists also reported killing of 7 people in Bukain town in barrel kabooms on Friday.

On another battlefront, the Syrian regime army and allied militia NDF have regained control over several northwestern villages from rebels on a plain crucial for defending coastal areas that Damascus holds, Rooters said on Saturday.

The military is battling forces of Evil including al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
for control of Sahl al-Ghab, a plain that runs alongside the western coastal mountains as well as lying close to Hama city.
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