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Hama: Regime mobilizes troops to retake al-Zara town
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An alliance of rebel factions have launched a counter attack against regime forces on Monday near the newly captured town of al-Zara in southern countryside of Hama province, local media center said.Hama Media Center and Hama News agency said fighters of the Northern Countryside Operation Room had destroyed a regime tank and killed its staff by a directed missile and destroyed a machine gun (23 titre) during the festivities. Russian warplanes bombed the village and surrounding area with spatial missiles and regime warplanes launched similar raids on festivities areas. The sources added that 11 regime fighters were killed with a mine kaboom on the village front while regime mobilized tens of heavy vehicles and machine guns as well as brought 200 fighters from militias to prepare for storming the village. Rebels in conjunction bombed regime strongholds in al-Jabeen village in southern countryside of Hama by heavy artillery and mortars. They destroyed BMB vehicle on one checkpoint in the village. In turn, regime helicopters bombed using explosive cylinders the village of Hasraya and other areas in al-Ghab Plains which resulted in material damages, according to local sources. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-17 |
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