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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two HTS militants killed in shelling with government forces in Idlib
2023-08-05


Two Death Eaters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly 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 .. ...
Front) were killed and another was maimed on Friday due to mutual shelling with Syrian government forces in northwest Syria.

An exclusive source told North Press that two HTS Death Eaters were killed as a result of targeting their vehicle in the town of al-Bara in Idlib Governorate by the government forces.

The source said a civilian was maimed during a shelling by the government forces on the positions of the HTS and the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), in the village of Kherbet al-Naqous, west of Hama Governorate.

Also, the government forces shelled the SNA positions in the town of al-Nayrab and Sarmin, east of Idlib. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
another shelling targeted the factions’ position in the village of Kafr Noran and al-Atareb, west of Aleppo, according to the source.

The source pointed out that the HTS responded to the shelling on the government forces’ positions in Regiment 46 and Urum al-Kubra in the west of Aleppo, Kafr Nabel in the south of Idlib, and Saraqib in the east.

The HTS, rebranded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate, under the guise of the Salvation Government.
Posted by:badanov

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