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Syria army retakes key militant bastion in Latakia
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian army, backed by volunteer forces, has managed to capture full control of the strategic town of Salma in the northwestern province of Latakia, state television... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reports. The armed forces and allies on Tuesday also managed to seize hilltops surrounding the town, which was controlled by foreign-backed bully boys. The channel added that Syrian government forces are now defusing the mines and bombs "left behind by terrorist groups in the buildings, streets, and squares of the town." Salma had served as the main stronghold for bully boy groups in Latakia, which is largely under the control of government forces. Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters in Latakia, including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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, are largely stationed in the northern and northeastern areas of Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman. Over the past several months, Syrian forces have been engaged in fierce fights to recapture those areas with the support of fighters of Leb resistance movement Hezbollah and Russian air raids. Russia began its Earlier on Tuesday, Syria's official news agency SANA reported that armed forces retook the Tartayah village as well as a number of hilltops and areas in Latakia. The agency added that an army unit and allies established control over Jarjiseh town and the area north of al-Rastan Lake in the southern countryside of Hama Province. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-13 |
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