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2019-03-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Militants kill 33 pro-Assad fighters in north-west
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[DAWN] At least 33 pro-regime fighters were killed on Sunday in attacks mounted by jihadist groups near Idlib province, in the deadliest day in six months for loyalist forces, a monitor said.
Twenty-seven fighters were killed in two attacks by Ansar al-Tawhid jihadists, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Five jihadists were also killed," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britannia-based monitoring group.
Ansar al-Tawhid has ties to the larger Hurras al-Deen group, which is also active in the area of northwest Syria. Both are considered semi-officials franchises of Al Qaeda in Syria.
The area of Idlib and small parts of the adjacent provinces of Hama and Aleppo are mostly controlled by the rival Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
 organization.
HTS is led by fighters who formerly belonged to Al Qaeda’s ex-affiliate in Syria.
The attacks by Ansar al-Tawhid were carried out against regime positions in Masasna, a village in Hama province, the Observatory said.
A military source quoted by state news agency SANA confirmed soldiers had been killed and maimed in the attacks on their positions near Idlib province.
Loyalists forces had killed some assailants, the source added without giving figures.
The foreign ministry said Syria "will not allow bandidos bandidos holy warriors and those who are behind them to carry on with their attacks against innocent civilians and the armed forces".
In Latakia province, also northwest of the capital, at least six pro-regime fighters were killed in attacks by HTS Lions of Islam later on Sunday, the Observatory said.
According to Abdel Rahman, the latest spate of attacks caused "one of the highest casualty figures among regime ranks since the Putin-Erdogan deal".
He was referring to an accord struck in the Russian resort of Sochi by Russian President Vladimir Putin
 ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Under the Sept 17 truce deal, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
would exert its influence over anti-regime groups in the Idlib region to have them pull back fighters and heavy weapons from a demilitarised zone.
It was meant to stave off a planned offensive by the regime and its Russian backers that aid groups feared could spark the eight-year-old Syrian conflict’s worst humanitarian crisis to date.
The government assault on the last major bastion of rebel forces has been held off but the deal’s provisions have not been implemented.
Since the Sochi agreement, HTS has consolidated its grip on Idlib province. 
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