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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
HTS claims killing of government soldiers in Syria’s Idlib, Aleppo
2023-06-06
[NPASyria] Sources in al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, a formation including extreme factions and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...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 Idlib, northwest Syria, said on Sunday that HTS killed government soldiers including a first lieutenant officer.

The sources told North Press that five government soldiers were killed and two others were maimed by a sniping brigade of the HTS in Milaja in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, and Basrton and Base 46 west of Aleppo.

They added that the factions managed to destroy a government site where weapons were stored in the town of Hazarin south of Idlib after targeting the site with a mortar.

Other military sources told North Press that the government forces also escalated their artillery and missile shelling of areas south of Idlib in al-Bara, al-Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra, Benin, and al-Ruweiha.

The mutual shelling coincided with intensive flight by Russia reconnaissance aircrafts over the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo and Hama, recording no Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement, signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual shelling between the government forces and opposition factions, as well as Russian jet flights.

In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 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.
Related:
Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room: 2023-05-24 Relative calm turns to simmering mutual shelling in NW Syria
Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room: 2023-04-19 HTS kills 3 troops of government forces in Syria's Idlib
Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room: 2023-04-12 Escalation between government, opposition leaves casualties in NE Syria
Related:
Idlib: 2023-06-04 Government shelling causes fire to break out in wheat crop in Aleppo
Idlib: 2023-06-04 HTS foreign fighter assassinated in Syria's Idlib
Idlib: 2023-06-02 Good Morning
Related:
Milaja: 2022-08-20 Government, Opposition Exchange Shelling In Syria’s Idlib, Aleppo
Related:
Zawiya Mountain: 2023-05-24 Relative calm turns to simmering mutual shelling in NW Syria
Zawiya Mountain: 2023-04-19 HTS kills 3 troops of government forces in Syria's Idlib
Zawiya Mountain: 2023-04-14 HTS arrests 11 Turkish-backed SNA militants in Syria's Idlib
Related:
Base 46: 2023-05-24 Relative calm turns to simmering mutual shelling in NW Syria
Base 46: 2023-04-03 HTS escalates shelling against government forces in NW Syria
Base 46: 2023-03-10 Mutual shelling between government, SNA continues in NW Syria
Related:
Hazarin: 2023-04-12 Escalation between government, opposition leaves casualties in NE Syria
Hazarin: 2022-05-11 Forces Of Government And Opposition Clash In Syria's Idlib
Hazarin: 2022-03-10 Government forces escalate bombing opposition factions’ sites in northwest Syria
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