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...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 raids carried out by Russian fighter jets on the HTS headquarters in Idlib.
Two military convoys of the
The convoys included more than 25 armored vehicles with more than 10 trucks carrying tanks and heavy artillery, in addition to ammunition.
The
The raids targeted a former water pumping station in the village of Ain Shib which resulted in the killing of two civilians and injuring five others, including children and women, the source added.
On Tuesday, the Russian warplanes launched
...KABOOM!...
s on a site belonging to the HTS on the outskirts of the villages of Batenta and al-Sheikh Bahr, west of Idlib, injuring 15 individuals, including HTS krazed killers.
Government shelling on opposition sites in Syria’s Idlib injures 5
[NPASyria] Five people, including three members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front), were injured on Thursday due to an artillery shelling by the Syrian government forces on sites in Idlib and Aleppo governorates, northwest Syria.
Two people were injured with shrapnel in the village of Kafr Nouran, west of Aleppo, and three HTS members were also injured in the countryside of the city of Saraqib, east of Idlib, a source told North Press.
The source said the HTS responded to the government’s shelling and targeted the Urum al-Kubra and Base 46, which are under the government forces’ control, in the west of Aleppo.
Over the past few days, the de-escalation zone witnessed a military escalation and intense mutual shelling between the HTS and the government forces. Russian warplanes also intensified their airstrikes on the region over the past three days.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
Violent clashes erupt between government forces, HTS in NW Syria
[NPASyria] Clashes erupted on Wednesday night between the Syrian government forces and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) on contact lines in the western countryside of Aleppo, northwestern Syria, amid a military escalation in the region.
A military source within the Syrian opposition told North Press violent clashes with heavy weapons between the government forces and the HTS erupted near the Regiment 46 and Kafr Amma in the western countryside of Aleppo after HTS detected movements of the government forces.
The clashes lasted for more than two and a half hours, without reporting casualties among the two parties, that exchanged shelling in Zawiya Mountain in the south of Idlib, the source added.
Unknown attackers kill, wound HTS militants in Syria’s Aleppo
[NPASyria] Unidentified assailants carried out on Wednesday an armed attack against a military vehicle of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS – formerly al-Nusra Front) in the town of Darat Izza, west of Aleppo, killing one militant and injuring another.
An exclusive source told North Press that unknown individuals attacked an HTS military vehicle with light weapons at 8 PM on the road leading to Darat Izza while they were heading towards the village of Kafr Lossin, north of Idlib, damaging their vehicle, killing one militant, and injuring the other.
He added that the attack was carried out by unknown individuals riding motorcycles and carrying light weapons. Such kind of attacks has started happening since June 18.
This is the sixth attack in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo since early August, with the HTS being unable to determine the identity of the attackers.
HTS shells Assad's hometown
[AlAhram] Shelling hit the hometown of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday, wounding a civilian, state media said, the second such attack in two months.
"Five shells were fired by terrorist groups deployed in the northern countryside on agricultural lands in the Qardaha area, wounding a citizen," the official news agency SANA said, quoting a police source.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said a civilian was wounded in the attack that was carried out early in the morning by factions affiliated with the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group.
HTS, led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, controls swathes of Idlib province as well as parts of the adjacent provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia.
In the previous attack on Qardaha, a civilian was killed in a drone strike on June 23, the British-based Observatory, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria, said at the time.