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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government forces shelling of NW Syria causes casualties
2023-08-18
[NPASyria] Syrian government forces targeted, on Thursday, areas in the countryside of Idlib Governorate, northwest Syria, with artillery and rocket attacks, injuring two people.

"The government forces stationed in the city of Saraqib, southeast of Idlib, targeted, with heavy artillery shells, the village of Majdaliya and the town of Sarmin in the eastern countryside of Idlib, which resulted in the injury of two people, including a woman", an exclusive military source told North Press.

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) targeted posts of the government forces in Regiment 46 and the towns of Urum al-Kubrah and Urum al-Sughra, west of Aleppo, in addition to Saraqib countryside, according to the source.

On Wednesday , two individuals were maimed as a result of artillery and missile shelling by the government forces targeting areas in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo.

Simultaneously, violent mostly peaceful festivities and mutual shelling between Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), and the government forces, took place in north of Aleppo.

Opposition military sources told North Press that the village of Kimar, south of Afrin, northwest Syria, witnessed on Wednesday at night violent mostly peaceful festivities with heavy weapons between the government forces and the SNA factions.

The festivities resulted in the injury of a Death Eater from Hamza Division, affiliated with the SNA, and the killing of two soldiers from the government forces. The area witnessed mutual artillery shelling between the two parties for more than two hours, according to the sources.

Additionally, the city of Tadef, east of Aleppo, also witnessed violent mostly peaceful festivities last night between the government forces and the SNA factions.

Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.

In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
reached an agreement in Moscow that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway.
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