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| In Syria: Army Recaptures Hama Village, Russia Strikes 55 ISIL Targets | |
| 2015-10-11 | |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army forces succeeded on Saturday to capture a village from turbans in the central province of Hama as part of a military campaign backed by Russian Government forces seized Atshan village in Hama from faceless myrmidons including 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... s and Al-Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front, Syria's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory, a Britannia-based group, reported heavy fighting around the village as government forces sought to push northwest and take a neighboring hilltop. With support from Russian The highway is cut by terrorist forces in several locations to the north of Khan Sheikhun. Hama province has been a key target for the Russian strikes that began on Sept. 30, along with parts of the neighboring provinces of Latakia and Idlib. Russia: 55 ISIL Targets Hit in 24 Hours In Moscow, Russia's defense ministry said Saturday that its forces had carried out 64 sorties hitting 55 ISIL targets in the past 24 hours. 29 field camps and ammunition depots of the terrorist organizations in Hama were destroyed in the air strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... was also reported on Saturday between government forces and faceless myrmidons in northern Latakia province. Russian warplanes struck both Latakia and Idlib provinces on Friday and Saturday, including a raid in Idlib that destroyed a base belonging to ISIL terrorists. In Aleppo province to the north, faceless myrmidons from Ahrar Al-Sham group battled to reverse an advance by ISIL that brought the holy warriors to within a few kilometers (miles) of Syria's second city.
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group recaptured one of several villages seized by IS in its Friday advance, a monitor said. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels were battling to take back a second village from the jihadist group, which is now within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of Aleppo city. | |
| Posted by:Fred |