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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government and opposition resume shelling each other in Syria's northwest
2021-08-29
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the countryside of Idlib and Hama, northwest Syria, witnessed a continuation of mutual shelling between the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions and the government forces, causing material damage to civilian homes.

"The government forces stationed in the city of Kafranbel renewed their artillery and missile shelling on the towns of al-Fatira and al-Bara, in the Zawiya mountain area, south of Idlib," sources of the opposition factions told North Press.

"The bombing targeted neighborhoods and residential homes, which resulted in the destruction of public and private properties, without casualties reported," the sources added.

The government bombed the sites of the opposition factions near the towns of al-Enkawi and Qleidin in the Ghab Plain area in the western countryside of Hama countryside, with heavy artillery shells and rocket launchers, according to the same sources.

Responding to the government bombing, the al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which includes several factions, announced that it had targeted the positions of the government forces in the town of Malajah in the southern countryside of Idlib, with mortars and Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
Earlier on Saturday, the Russian warplanes renewed their aerial shelling of areas held by Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions south of Idlib in addition to targeting a training center belonging to 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), while Syrian government forces shelled several villages in Zawiya Mountain.

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