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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mutual shelling between government, opposition escalates in Syria’s northwest
2022-02-20
Standing headline #47.


On Saturday, different areas in the de-escalation zones, northwest Syria, witnessed military escalation and exchange of shelling between the Syrian government forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions.

The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Enkawi, al-Qahira and al-Sarmania in the Gab Plain in the western countryside of Hama were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces stationed in Jurin camp, North Press reported military sources in the opposition.

"The sites of the opposition factions near the towns of Kafr Noran and Kafr Ta’al, west of Aleppo, were also bombed by the government forces, but no casualties were reported," the sources added.

In Idlib, the fortifications of the opposition factions near the town of Afes, Harsh of Benin and the outskirts of the town of al-Bara, south Idlib, were, according to the sources, also bombed by the government forces stationed in Saraqib.

"The government forces’ sites near the town of al-Bureij, south Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room," according to the sources.

The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnesses daily bombardment between the government forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions, without any change in the territorial control.
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