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| Al-Qaeda militants storm Aleppo city from its western flank |
| 2017-05-31 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] Skirmishes have resumed with ferocity on the western fringes of Aleppo city as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is exploiting a regional UN-brokered safe zone that prevents the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) from conducting sorties over Idlib province and limits it from targeting Islamist rebel groups in rural Aleppo. A newly released HTS video depicts a recent raid on the Air Force Intelligence Building in the Jamiyat al-Zahraa neighborhood of western Aleppo. According to the media wing of HTS, five soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were killed in the attack. Despite partially overrunning a key government facility, HTS did not achieve any major breakthrough and later withdrew to its initial positions, a military source informed al-Masdar News. HTS, a jihadist faction with close ties to al-Qaeda, is considered a terrorist organization by most countries worldwide and subsequently has been excluded from the de-escalation zones in Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |