[Garowe] The Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... snuffies on Wednesday killed four civilians and maimed 8 others in the ancient town of Barawe in the Southern part of the country, on a day when the Southwest state was holding parliamentary elections for seven seats.
Somalia is under pressure to conclude elections by February 25 before embarking on the much anticipated presidential polls. Already, the US has started slapping visa restrictions on individuals believed to be saboteurs of elections.
The al-Shabaab media affiliates reported the attack but did not give further details thus it's not clear who they targeted in this particular raid. But the fact that it happens at the time the region is holding elections for 13 parliamentary seats speaks volumes.
Witnesses said the snuffies fired five rounds of mortars to the town with tow hitting residential houses. The mortars landed in Sakhawadin and Dayah neighborhoods in Barawe town, leading to four deaths and multiple injuries.
The network was down the town earlier but it’s back to normal service now, another witness said. The snuffies thrive on communication failure when attacking certain towns in the country to evade hawk-eyed Somali National Army [SNA] and AU forces.
Today, only seven Parliamentary elections took place while the contest for the remaining six will be held on Thursday according to authorities. All states are rushing to beat the deadline and analysts say there has been tremendous progress in recent weeks.
The attack also comes a day after opposition bigwigs questioned the motive of dispatching Somali National Army Infantry commander General Tahlil Bihi, who is a close ally of outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo. Bihi is accused of infiltrating the electoral process.
[Garowe] At least four people were killed and seven others injured in a kaboom at a restaurant in northeast Somalia’s Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... commercial city of Bossaso on Wednesday afternoon.
A Puntland police officer told state-run Radio Mogadishu that the bomber struck in front of a restaurant in Bosasso ...Puntland's major (maybe only) port, population about 250,000, most of them shady characters who hang around waterfront dives and carry knives and brass knuckles... ’s Al Macruuf shopping center.
The motive of the latest attack in Puntland State has not been established.
Fun, profit, and instilling terror in the hearts of the insufficiently pious?
Locals said security forces have launched a major manhunt for the perpetrators of the latest explosion in Bossaso town which has been beset by a series of landmine and suicide kabooms including liquidations in the recent past.
No group has grabbed credit for the blast but al-Qaeda allied terror group, al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... s (ISIS) have staged such attacks in the past in Bossaso and elsewhere in Puntland State.
The so-called ISIS wing in Somalia has its main base in the Puntland state and has occasionally clashed with Puntland forces and al-Shabaab.
There was tension on Tuesday morning in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State when an official of the Anambra Traffic Management Agency (ATMA) was killed by unknown gunmen.
Though details of the incident are still sketchy, it was learnt that the deceased was controlling traffic at the ever-busy Ekwulobia junction when he was gunned down.
The bullet was said to have shattered his head from behind.
In October 2021, four policemen were killed by unknown gunmen in the community.
The gunmen who were riding in a convoy of three Sienna vehicles had run into the policemen and immediately opened fire on them.
Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele, the Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has been abducted by gunmen at his residence in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.
Egele popularly known as (Baba Petrol) was abducted on Monday evening while his driver was killed in the process.
A popular Abuja human rights lawyer, Abdul Mahmud, said that the gunmen were yet to make contact with the family after the incident.
"Last night at about 6.45pm, my brother in law, Abdulhamid Baba-Saliu, Chairman, IPMAN, Edo State and Chairman, Jattu Union, were violently accosted by armed men at the gates of his country home in Jattu, Etsako West LGA, Edo State," PUNCH quoted Mahmud as saying.
"He lives between Benin, Abuja and Jattu where he runs his chain of petrol stations, Baba Petroleum. He was at home over the week for the 3rd day prayer for his uncle who died last week.
"One of his drivers was instantly shot and killed; and the other driver, including his personal security details, was grievously injured in the attack. My brother in-law was taken away by the kidnappers. No contact, or random demand, has been made as yet.
"These are difficult and trying times for us. While we continue to pray for his safe return, I appeal to his abductors and keepers to release him unharmed to his family and community, Jattu, Uzairue that he has given much love as a father and respected community leader."
A fisherman has been reported dead while scores of others were injured in Brass Island of Bayelsa State, following a pirate attack on the sea on Monday.
The victims, who are said to be of Ilaje ethnic nationality from Ondo State and residing on the island, had set out to fish on the high sea.
Confirming the attack, SP Asinim Butswat, spokesman for the Bayelsa State Police Command, on Tuesday, said a yet-to-be-identified fisherman died when suspected pirates attacked the fisherfolk, stealing their engine boats.
"Some fishermen fishing on the high sea were attacked by sea pirates and they stole their engines, and in the process, one person was confirmed dead," he said.
One of the victims who survived the attack, Nuru Oriade, said the attackers came in about speed boats. The deceased person was Oriade's brother.
He said, "We were fishing, dropping our nets this morning when suddenly we saw about five to six speed boats as they drew close to us and opened fire.
"They set ablaze some of the boats and took away the engines.
"They killed my brother who went along with me to fish this morning. I survived because I pretended to be dead."
[DW] The German national is believed to have married several members of the "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " terrorist organization. One of her alleged husbands had kept a Yazidi woman as a slave.
German authorities have pressed war crimes charges against a suspected member of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS), the federal prosecutor general in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday.
WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR?
The German national, Jalda A.,
...apparently appearing here for the first time...
is believed to have married several members of IS, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office. She was detained in October upon her arrival in Frankfurt airport, as a warrant had been issued for her arrest by Hamburg's higher regional court.
She first traveled to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in 2014, with the intention of joining the terrorist group. She then married an IS member shortly afterward and lived in the Syrian cities of Tal Abyad and Raqqa, according to prosecutors.
During this time, she allegedly supported her husband's activities in the holy warrior group. Prosecutors say she watched as IS engaged in public punishments and brutality, and even raised her son in the IS ideology.
In April 2015, her first husband died in combat. Therefore, she became a "second wife" of another IS fighter.
From September to October, she had married for a third time and settled down in city of Mayadin, which lies in eastern Syria.
Suspect engaged in abuse of enslaved Yazidi woman
Her third IS husband is suspected of having kept a Yazidi woman as a slave. IS views the Yazidi religion as inferior, with the group having committed a mass genocide of Yazidi people in Iraq in the mid-2010s.
Jalda A. is believed to have willingly participated in the abuse of the Yazidi woman, who was often raped by her IS husband.
"She herself abused the woman almost daily and especially following the rapes," the statement from the prosecutor general said. "For example, she regularly punched and kicked the woman, yanked her hair or hit her head against the wall."
Jalda A. attempted to leave Syria at the end of 2017, but was arrested. She then spent time in a Kurdish-run camp until she returned to Germany.
Germany frequently prosecutes those who commit serious crimes abroad under the legal principle of universal jurisdiction. In October of last year, a German court sentenced an IS bride to 10 years in prison for having let a Yazidi slave girl die from dehydration.
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Did IS have a life insurance policy payable to the spouse?
[Rudaw] A French criminal court on Tuesday handed a 12-year sentence of imprisonment to a French-Armenian citizen, originally from the Yazidi ethno-religious group, for his membership of a jihadist group in Syria, reported AFP.
Artyom Aloyan, who was born 33 years ago in what is now Armenia, migrated to La Belle France in 2002 and later became a citizen of the country. He converted to Islam in 2012 and joined the jihadist group 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 in Syria, subsequently travelling through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and receiving training from the group for two months, as disclosed to Ottoman Turkish authorities after his arrest in the country’s Hatay province in August 2016.
Aloyan had visited Turkey after being injured in a tank shooting in Syria in 2016, as reported by Haber 7 at the time.
The French prosecution accused Aloyan of "participation in a criminal network." He admitted during the Tuesday trial to have fought in the ranks of the al-Nusra Front, but denied that the group is a terrorist one." al-Nusra is not a terrorist organization. This is a Western view," AFP quoted him as telling the judges.
The Gay Paree Assize Court sentenced him to 12 years in prison as requested by the Public Prosecutor which had noted that the maximum penalty for such a crime is 30 years.
"The Gay Paree Assize Court has been convinced of the responsibility of Artyom Aloyan in the crime with which he is accused," Chief Justice David Hale was quoted as saying when reading the verdict.
"It is worth noting the terrorist nature of the al-Nusra Front organization, which is linked to al-Qaeda and has carried out serious jihadist actions that are manifested, among other things, by committing atrocities and attacks, especially in Iraq and Syria," he added.
Aloyan had been sentenced to four years and two months in Turkey in 2016, but he was repatriated to La Belle France without serving his full sentence.
Al-Nusra Front was formed in 2012 in Syria, fighting against the Syrian government forces. The jihadist group has been designated as a terrorist group by several countries, including the US. It has changed its name many times.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested an al-Qaeda operative in connection with a conspiracy case to conduct kabooms in poll bound Uttar Pradesh.
The operative, Towheed Ahmad Shah is a resident of Badgam in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . The case was originally registered by the Uttar Pradesh ATS against Shah who had entered into a conspiracy for recruiting members of the al-Qaeda affiliate AGH (Ansaar Gajwatul Hind) to commit acts of terror in Lucknow.
Earlier the NIA had arrested 5 persons in connection with the case and a chargesheet had also been filed. The probe revealed that Towheed was the criminal mastermind of the conspiracy to recruit the operatives and to commit acts of terror. He also oversaw the procurement of arms and ammunition apart from kabooms to be used in the blasts in Uttar Pradesh.
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A week ago, a band of bucolic hindoo toughies were out bullying moslem 'students' in the UP [that's a state]. An altercation ensued over the taste of chicken dumplings or something. And two kashmiri 'students' were thrashed. There was a hue and cry about the toxic masculinity in the news too.
Anyway, when the cops were processing them all, they found the two kashmiri 'students' were Al-Qaeda recruits, part of a cell for carrying out attacks. Their interrogation, which yours truly was privy to, got us prosecutable evidence on Towheed Shah. The village toughies, the hindu equivalent of your 'rednecks', are now local heroes. And quite understandably, they are now going about beating up people who 'fit the profile' of a no-gooder jihadi and drinking lot's of beer whilst singing patriotic songs. 😀
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I have been ordering lamb vindaloo (and was happy with it) but I guess I'll try chick vindaloo now.
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Shockingly, my vindaloo recipe calls for beef. I did not serve it to Mr. Wife’s colleagues from Mumbai when they came to Cincinnati for meetings.
Congratulations on the fortuitous catch and successful interrogation, Dron. And thank you for sharing the background for what was otherwise utterly (hah!) incongruous to me. Is there a similar backstory to the schoolgirl hijab fuss? It makes no sense that suddenly it’s an issue.
[OneIndia] The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid by a drone along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab, PTI reported.
A senior official of the force said troops fired at the drone after they heard a "buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming from the Pakistani side to the Indian side" around 1 am in the Panjgrain area of Gurdaspur sector.
During a search in the area of Ghaggar and Singhoke villages, two packets of yellow colour with suspected contraband have been recovered so far," the senior officer said.
It is suspected that the drone dropped the packets. They were found lying around 20 metres apart on a farm about 2.7 km from the border fence, he added.
A pistol was also seen wrapped in one of the packets.
[Dawn] Security forces killed a terrorist during an exchange of fire in the Shewa area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) North Wazoo district on the night between February 8 and February 9, the military's media affairs wing said on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the killed terrorist was identified as Irfan alias Abu Darda and weapons and ammunition were found in his possession.
Irfan was involved in terrorist activities against security forces, murders and kidnappings for ransom, the ISPR said, adding that local residents of the area "appreciated the operation and expressed their full support for eliminating the menace of terrorism from the area".
Recently, there has been a rise in terrorist attacks on security forces and earlier today Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa expressed the resolve not to let desperate revival attempts by faceless myrmidons succeed.
According to an earlier statement by the ISPR, he was presiding over 247th Corps Commanders’ Conference at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, where a comprehensive briefing on the security situation in the country, particularly the recent terror attacks in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , was given.
Gen Bajwa expressed satisfaction over the operational preparedness of the army’s formations and safeguards in place for the defence of the country, the statement said, adding that the army's top brass paid tribute to the deaders who sacrificed their lives for the defence of the country while "valiantly repulsing recent terrorist attacks in Balochistan & inflicting heavy losses on them".
"We have come a long way in our fight against terrorism. Armed forces, with the support of the nation, have conducted successful operations against faceless myrmidons of all hues and colours," the army chief told the participants.
"We will eliminate all remnants of terrorists, their abettors & accomplices whatever is the cost," the COAS emphasised.
Shafaq News/ Three Iraqi soldiers and one civilian were reportedly killed in a bomb attack that targeted their vehicle in al-Rutba district, western al-Anbar, on Wednesday morning.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the soldiers were heading home on their leave when an explosive device detonated their vehicle in al-Sakkar area, killing them immediately.
A civilian died in the attack, according to the source, and several others were injured.
The attack comes less than 24 hours from a similar attack against a force from the Iraqi army in Rawa district, al-Anbar. The force was in charge of the protecting a group of Kawaiti hunters when an explosive device blasted their vehicle, killing and injuring scores of troops on duty.
Iraq declared victory against ISIS in the country in December 2017, while ISIS lost its last territory across the border in Syria, where many Iraqi ISIS fighters fled after being pushed out of the country, in early 2019.
The last two cities to be retaken by Iraqi security forces from ISIS were Qaim and Rawa in Iraq's western al-Anbar region along the border with Syria.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi forces foiled a suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attack in Kirkuk province late on Tuesday, as Iraqi and Peshmerga fighters launch joint operations to increase cooperation in disputed territories where the terror group remains active.
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic) thwarted an ISIS attack in Kirkuk’s style=color:maroon;>Dibis town after "ISIS remnants attacked checkpoints of the Iraqi army," state media reported.
No group has made any comments yet about the recent offensive.
[IsraelTimes] Three Paleostinian men entered the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border region on Wednesday and threw a Molotov cocktail at an empty Israeli truck that was parked there, setting it on fire, before running back, according to Paleostinian media reports and the Israeli military.
There were no reports of Israeli injuries in the incident.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the suspects approached the border and two of them cut through an old fence to enter into a buffer zone that is controlled by Israel but is still on the Gaza side of the barrier.
Inside the buffer zone, the two suspects went up to an empty truck that was being used for maintenance at the border and set it on fire, the military said. The truck was not an IDF vehicle but belonged to a civilian contractor who was working for the military.
After throwing the Molotov cocktail at the truck, the trio ran back into the Gaza Strip, the military said, noting that the three never crossed the recently completed border barrier.
Video footage of the arson attack that was shared on social media showed thick black smoke pouring out of the vehicle, which was apparently heavily damaged by the fire.
The irregular border incident came amid a relative lull in violence between Israel and Paleostinian terror groups in the Strip.
\\QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with the support of the US-led Global Coalition managed last night to capture Islamic State Organization (ISIS) members during a joint security operation in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
“The InSF HAT and SDF conducted a clearance operation in Busayrah to capture DA’ESH members with known ties to Iranian weapons smuggling networks,” a security source of the Global Coalition told North Press.
Clashes erupted between the two parties and lead to the arrest of ten ISIS members.
The ISIS members were hiding in and among civilians’ houses and refused to surrender, according to the source.
During the clashes a child and a local sheikh were killed so that the military operation was halted, the source noted.
Reporting by Adnan Hamo
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DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – An ISIS member was killed yesterday in a Russian air raid on an area run by the Iranian-backed factions in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
The Russian aircraft targeted an ISIS member who hid near a primitive refinery in the town of Dhablan, east of Deir ez-Zor, a military source of the Syrian government forces said.
The source, who preferred not to be named, added that the ISIS member did not have any documents or identity papers, and he was riding a bicycle.
The Syrian government forces and the Iranian-backed factions started launching a military operation in Syria’s desert to pursue ISIS sleeper cells after the latter increased their attacks that led to significant losses among the government and Iranian forces.
Reporting by Omar Abdurrahman
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HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and the affiliated armed opposition factions bombed on Wednesday a village in the countryside of Abu Rasin town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
North Press reported a local source as saying:” The hill of the village of Tel-Thiab, north Abu Rasin, was hit with a barrage of shells by Turkish forces and the opposition faction.”
A number of graves on the hill were destroyed in the Turkish shelling, the source added.
Two days ago, the same village plus the villages of Dada Abdal, al-Asadiya and al-Bobi in the countryside of Abu Rasin, were bombed by Turkish forces.
The villages of Chatali, Karbashak and Bir Kniss, in the western countryside of the city of Derbasiyah, were similarly bombed by Turkish forces. The bombardment came in tandem with the Turkish reconnaissance aircraft flying over the region.
Several houses in the aforementioned villages were damaged in the shelling, but no casualties were reported.
ALEPPO COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A militant of the Turkish-backed faction of Sultan Murad was killed and three others were wounded in a shelling by the Syrian government forces on the outskirts of Abu Zindin crossing near al-Bab city east of Aleppo, north Syria.
A militant of Sultan Murad faction was killed and three others were wounded with some of them suffering critical wounds in a government missile bombardment in the vicinity of Abu Zindin crossing, an exclusive source told North Press.
The shelling caused damages to and set on fire two four wheels vehicles owned by the faction, the source added.
The Abu Zindin crossing links between areas held by the Turkish-backed factions and those held by the Syrian government and through it smuggling operations occur under the supervision of the factions, according to the same source.
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A Turkish drone bombed a car in the village of Bahira in the western countryside of Amuda, near the Syrian-Turkish border on Wednesday evening.
“A child lost his life and some others were wounded in the bombardment,” North press reported a security source.
“The car was targeted by two bombs, but only hit it,” the source said.
“The village of Ain Qirda in the countryside of al-Derbasiyah was bombed by several shells from the Turkish territory, and civilians’ homes were damaged as a result,” according to the security source.
The Turkish bombing of a car in the village of Bahira led to the outage of the Tel-Habash electricity line, which supplies 40 villages with electricity, Amuda Electricity Center said.
Reporting by Aso Ibrahim
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HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, the security forces arrested five Islamic State (ISIS) inmates who escaped from the al-Sina’a prison in Guweiran neighborhood in Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria.
A security source told North Press that one of Guweiran residents informed that a group of suspects were present in a house in the neighborhood.
Anti-terror forces, the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish), and Community Protection Units (a civilian force) headed to the scene and encircled the house.
The house is near al-Aghawat Mosque on the outskirts of Guweiran.
Four of ISIS escapees are Iraqi nationals and the fifth one is a Syrian citizen, the source said.
“The ISIS escapees had suicide vests, machine guns, and bags with ISIS flags. The inmates surrendered without resistance,” the source said.
On late Tuesday, the Asayish arrested two ISIS sleeper cells near Abyad road southwest of Hasakah.
Reporting by Jindar Abdulqader
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IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed on Wednesday mutual shelling between the Syrian government forces and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Oweid, Sufuhn, al-Bara, Benin and Kasanfra, south Idlib, were hit with artillery and missiles by the government forces stationed in the surrounding checkpoints, military sources of the Syrian opposition told North Press.
Syrian government forces targeted opposition movements in the villages and towns of Ajel, Taqad, Tadil and the outskirts of Kafr Noran, west of Aleppo, without reports of casualties, according to the same sources.
Meanwhile, the government forces’ sites in the village of Urm-al-Soghra, west of Aleppo, were bombed by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, North Press reported a source in the National Liberation Front.
“The other sites of the government forces’ sites in the villages of Bastroun, Tala and the 46 Regiment west of Aleppo, and al-Malajah and Hantoteen in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, were also targeted with Heavy machine guns and field cannons by the opposition factions, ” the sources added.
Over the past 48 hours, the de-escalation zones in northwest Syria have witnessed escalation of mutual shelling between opposition factions and Syrian government forces in different areas, amid intense flight of Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the region.
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