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Syrian Army Advances in Central Hama Province
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army forces and their allies advanced on Monday in the central province of Hama under the cover of intense The push toward the town of Tibet al-Imam came a day after troops and allied forces captured the town of Soran, a month after Soran was lost in a terrorist offensive. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian air force jets had conducted nearly 25 Syrian state news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that troops are now at the eastern entrance of Tibet al-Imam after capturing nearby hills under the cover of intense bombardment. SANA’s correspondent in Hama said that an army unit, in cooperation with supporting forces, repelled an attack by hard boyz from 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 .. ... on al-Satehiyat village in the western countryside of Salamiya area in Hama province. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-18 |
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