Terrorists Fail Again to Prevail over Syrian Army Positions in Hama, Idlib

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian Army opened heavy fire at terrorists' movements, deployed in the demilitarized zone, preempting their attacks on government forces' positions in Northern Hama and Southeastern Idlib on Tuesday.

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Date: 04 December 2018 - 14:48

The army's artillery units pounded the movements of a group of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists near the town of Morek in Northern Hama, preempting their attack on the Damascus forces' strongholds in Tal Bazam region North of the town of Souran.

Tahrir al-Sham suffered several casualties and the remaining pockets of them retreated from the area.

In the meantime, Syria's state-owned al-Watan daily reported that the army's missile units shelled Tahrir al-Sham's movements in the small towns of al-Tah, Jajanaz and Skeik in Southeastern Idlib, adding that the terrorists had launched their attack from the demilitarized zone.

Al-Watan went on to say that tens of Syrian families left terrorist-held regions in Idlib province for safe regions under the army's control via Abu al-Dhohour humanitarian corridor in the tenth day of reopening of the corridor by the Damascus forces.

The terrorists' refusal to implement the Sochi Agreement to establish a demilitarized zone is pushing the army to initiate its long-waited assault on militants in Idlib that had been put on hold due to the Sochi Agreement.

Colonel Mar'ei Hamdan, a Syrian military expert, was quoted by the Arabic-language website of Sputnik news agency as saying last month that Tahrir al-Sham is in control of nearly 70% of towns and villages in Idlib province and makes provocative moves against the Syrian army, adding that the army's commitment to decrease tensions is not lasting forever.

He added that the Syrian army has so far repelled all attacks by terrorists against its positions and inflicted heavy damages on them, noting that the army is now necessitated to come out of the defensive mood to retake control of Idlib.

Hamdan said that Tahrir al-Sham will resort to a full-scale military operation against the Syrian and Russian armies soon, after rejecting the Sochi agreement last October, which leaves no room for ceasefire or disarmament anymore, and underlined that the Syrian army's battle against Tahrir al-Sham is inevitable.

Meantime, the Turkey-backed Ahrar al-Sham and National Liberation Front (NLF) terrorist groups has also dismissed the Russian-Turkish Sochi agreement and is preparing for military operations against the army in Northern Syria, calling for a coalition with Tahrir al-Sham.

Tahrir al-Sham and other allied terrorist groups have not left the demilitarized zone two months after the Sochi agreement and have instead reinvigorated their strongholds and targeted the army positions every day.

Relevant reports said that the Turkey-backed NLF had put its gunmen on alert to launch a heavy offensive against the Syrian army in the demilitarized zone in Idlib province.

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