...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) and opposition factions in Idlib, northwest Syria, targeted government forces’ positions east of Idlib, amid continued mutual shelling between the two parties in the south.
An informed source in Idlib told North Press that the HTS targeted a gathering of government forces on the Kafr Mous axis, south of the city.
He added that the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which includes several factions, bombed sites of the government forces in the city of Saraqib and the towns of Tel Mardikh, Kafr Batikh and Hantoutin, east of Idlib, with rockets and heavy artillery shells.
The al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room said that it managed to destroy a tank in Jurin Camp in the Ghab Plain in the countryside of Hama.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
field sources in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, said that the government forces continued their artillery and missile bombing on the villages and towns of Kansafra, al-Fatira, Feleifel, Deir Sunbul, Benin and al-Bara.
The same sources indicated that the bombing caused material damage and coincided with the intense flight of Russian drones over the area.
During the past 24 hours, Idlib witnessed a military escalation and exchange of shelling between opposition factions and government forces, which expanded the scope of their bombardment to target residential neighborhoods in the city center of Idlib, killing and wounding a number of civilians.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-