...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) wounding three people, including a woman.
A local source told North Press that the shelling resulted in the injury of three people including a woman. The government forces shelled the town from their posts in the city of Saraqib, east of Idlib.
Areas in Idlib southern countryside including the towns of al-Bara, Majdaliya, and Qastoun were also shelled by the government forces.
The source added that the HTS responded to the shelling and fired shells at the posts of the government forces in the southern countryside of Idlib.
The HTS, founded in 2017, controls Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, using the Salvation Government as a political and administrative umbrella since.
Northwest Syria witnesses an escalation of military operations and intense mutual shelling, with Russian warplanes participating in dozens of
...KABOOM!...
s that claim the lives of people.
Northwest Syria is included within the de-escalation zone that 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.