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| Russia Targets Syria’s Idlib Amid Mutual Shelling In De-Escalation Zone |
| 2022-09-18 |
Posted separately from the rest of the Turkey-Syria border zone stories because as far as I can tell based on this article, it’s a war of all against all over there, not just Turkey ruthlessly expanding. [NPASyria] Russian aircrafts renewed on Saturday their raids on areas controlled by Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA) in the countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria.While de-escalation zone in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib in northwest Syria witnessed mutual shelling between Syrian government forces and SNA factions. This escalation comes in tandem with the entry of a UN aid convoy from Syrian government-held areas to Idlib, controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra Front). A military source of the SNA told North Press that four Russian aircrafts, S24 and S34, targeted with about 10 airstrikes the vicinity of the western part of Idlib, and a stone sawmill near the town of Hafsarjah, west of Idlib. The source added that the Russian airstrikes caused injury to civilian working in one of the stone sawmills. Military sources in National Front for Liberation told North Press that the Syrian government forces targeted with 100 artillery shells and rockets the vicinity of the town Atarib and the villages of Makalbis, Tuqad, al-Wsata, al-Qasr, Kafr Amma and Sheikh Suleiman, west of Aleppo. The government forces targeted the towns and villages of, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra, Benin, al-Ruweiha and the vicinity of al-Bara in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib. They also targeted the villages of al-Ghassaniyah, al-Ghania, and Kafr Yadin in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, without information about human casulities according to the same source. Meanwhile, SNA factions targeted the government forces’ posts in the town of Kinsabba and Jabal Abu Ali in the northern countryside of Latakia with heavy artillery and rockets, and other posts in Base 46, Urum al-Kubra, and Basratun, west of Aleppo. For months, the areas in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, especially in south of Idlib and west of Aleppo, continue to witness daily exchange of bombardment between the SNA factions and the government forces, despite being part of the ceasefire agreement signed between Russia and Turkey in March 2020, which stipulates a halt of all military actions in Idlib. |
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