Twelve Syrian soldiers have been killed by an al-Qaeda linked group in northwest Syria, according to a war monitoring organization, the highest such corpse count in the region this year.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that "12 members of the regime forces, including an officer, were killed following suicide kabooms carried out by special forces from the 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...
group (HTS), targeting regime forces positions in the north of Latakia province" adjacent to Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the northwest.
The corpse count is the "highest among the regime forces in the region since last September", according to the observatory.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Observatory, told AFP that the attack was part of "an escalation by HTS since Monday, which included attacks on regime forces on several fronts".
The Idlib region is subject to a ceasefire brokered by Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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after a regime offensive in March 2020. Despite being repeatedly violated, the ceasefire is still largely holding.
HTS controls swathes of Idlib province and parts of neighboring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia.
More than five million people, most of them displaced, live in areas outside government control in the Idlib region.
HTS, considered a terrorist organization by Damascus, the United States and the European Union
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, regularly festivities with Syrian and allied Russian forces.
It is the main rebel organization active in northwest Syria, but there are other groups, some backed by Turkey. 
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