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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government forces bomb opposition sites in Syria's Idlib, Hama
2021-08-15
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the Syrian government forces renewedtheir artillery and missile attacks on the villages and towns of the countryside of Idlib and Hama, northwest of Idlib.

The government forces bombed the towns of al-Fatira, Kansafra, Benin and Deir Sunbul in the Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells and missiles, military sources from the opposition told North Press.

The government forces stationed in the Jorin Camp targeted the villages of Khirbet al-Naqous and al-Mansoura in the western countryside of Hama, the sources added.

The bombardment coincided with an intense flight of Russian drones over Idlib and the countryside of Hama and Latakia, northwest Syria, whereas no casualties were reported.

Fateh al-Mubeen Operations Room, which includes 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) and Jaish al-Izza (Army of Glory) along with the National Front for Liberation, announced the targeting of the government forces’ positions in the town of Urum al-Kubra and the Base 46, west of Aleppo, with mortars and B9 shells, according to military sources.

Earlier today, the government forces shelled posts of Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions in the western countryside of Aleppo, wounding a mother and her child in the town of Kfar Ta’al.
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