...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) shelled on Monday posts of the Syrian government forces in the countryside of Idlib, northwestern Syria, killing two soldiers and wounding two others.
Military sources within the Syrian armed opposition factions told North Press that HTS’ attacks killed two soldiers of the government forces and injured two other in the village of al-Malaja in Zawiya Mountain in the south of Idlib.
Moreover, military sources within al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room told North Press that festivities renewed between the HTS and the government forces in Kafr Amma in the western countryside of Aleppo, where late at night, heavy festivities occurred between the two parties.
On Monday afternoon, the HTS attacked posts of the government forces in the village of Nahshabba in the northern countryside of Latakia with artillery and missiles, whereas the latter attacked the villages and towns of Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Maarat Naasan in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and Kafr Taal and al-Wasata in the western countryside of Aleppo.