Popular Uprising against Terrorist Groups Reported in Northwestern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- People in a town in Idlib province poured into the streets and protested against the terrorist groups that have been engaged in fierce clashes in recent weeks, local sources in the Southern part of the province reported on Wednesday.

News ID: 69064

Date: 07 March 2018 - 14:34

The sources said that people in the town of Kafr Nubl in Southern Idlib took to the streets and called for expulsion of both Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) and Syria's Tahrir Front from their region.

Terrorists in Kafr Nubl opened fire at protestors and injured four civilians.

Heavy infighting between Tahrir al-Sham and Syria's Tahrir Front has caused heavy losses on civilians in Idlib and Aleppo provinces in recent weeks.

The Arabic-language al-Watan daily reported on Tuesday that a safe corridor was set up by the government forces under the supervision of the Russian and Turkish sides in Tal al-Sultan region in Eastern Idlib to pave the ground for the civilians to exit terrorist-held regions in Northwestern Syria.

Al-Watan went on to say that the newly-set up safe corridor was supposed to be used by those displaced civilians that had left their villages and settlements in Southern Aleppo for the regions that are under the control of the Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) in Idlib province.

It added that tens of civilians used the newly-established corridor to reach army-controlled regions within the framework of the de-escalation zone agreement concluded in Astana.

Heavy infighting among terrorist groups in Aleppo and Idlib provinces displaced a large number of civilians in Northwestern Syria.