...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) in the city of Atarib, west of Aleppo, northern Syria.
Outskirts of 46 battalion in Atarib witnessed fierce festivities following an attack launched by the HTS against several posts of the government forces, as the latter replied using artillery shells targeting residential areas in the city.
A source of the Syrian civil defense told North Press that the government forces targeted Atarib with artillery shells at Iftar time from their posts on the surrounding checkpoints.
One young man was killed and others, including a woman, were maimed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ...
a military source from al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room told North Press that the HTS attacked the 46 battalion west of Aleppo.
The HTS took control of three posts during this attack, according to the source.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-
In March 2020, Russia and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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.