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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government forces escalate shelling of NW Syria
2023-08-14
[NPASyria] Syrian government forces renewed on Sunday shelling on several locations in the countryside of Hama, Aleppo, and Idlib in northwestern Syria, following hours of intense festivities between conflicting parties west of Aleppo.

Military sources from the Syrian opposition told North Press that the government forces targeted residential neighborhoods in the villages of Maarat al-Naasan and Shallakh, east of Idlib, as well as the outskirts of Kafr Nouran, Kafr Amma, and Tadil, west of Aleppo, using heavy artillery shells.

The villages and towns of Sarmada, al-Ankawi, and Duwayr al-Akrad in al-Ghab Plain, located in western Hama, were shelled by the government forces from Jorin military camp.

"The shelling caused material damage to both public and private properties," the sources added.

Northwestern Syria is witnessing an escalation of skirmishes between the government forces, 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 Syrian opposition factions. These festivities have led to casualties among civilians.
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