Syrian Army Pounds Tahrir Al-Sham's Positions, Movements in Idlib, Hama

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian army destroyed the key strongholds of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in response to the terrorist group's attacks from the demilitarized zone on safe areas and military points in Hama and Idlib.

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Date: 05 April 2019 - 15:17

The Syrian army units on Friday responded to the terrorists' missile strikes on residential areas in the town of Mahradeh in Northern Hama which killed and wounded several civilians, with artillery and missile fire, smashing Tahrir al-Sham strongholds in the towns of Kafr Zita and al-Hawir in the Northern parts of Sahl al-Ghab in Northern and Northwestern Hama and leaving several militants dead.

Meantime, the Arabic-language service of Sputnik reported that the army troops launched artillery attacks on terrorists' moves and positions in al-Tah, al-Tamane'ah, al-Khuwain, al-Zarzour and Khan Sheikhoun in Southeastern Idlib, destroying several positions of the terrorists.

It added that 5 Syrian army soldiers had been killed during Horras al-Din terrorist group's guided missile attacks on the town of Sham al-Haqa in Southeastern Idlib on Thursday.

In a relevant development on Wednesday, the Syrian and Russian air forces heavily pounded and smashed the main stronghold and arms cache of Tahrir al-Sham in response to the terrorist group's continued attacks from the demilitarized zone in Hama and Idlib.

The Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper reported that Tahrir al-Sham's base near Jabal al-Zawiyeh region in Southwestern Idlib and Nabi Ayoub hill was fiercely attacked by the Russian and Syria warplanes in response to their offensives.

Meantime, the Arabic-language service of Sputnik news agency reported that one of the main bases of Tahrir al-Sham that hosted a meeting of a number of terrorists and one of their arms and military equipment cache which was used to target residential areas were destroyed during the Syrian army's airstrikes against Jabal al-Zawiyeh region.

It added that the Syrian army forces also launched artillery and missile strikes against the terrorists' movements to transfer weapons and military equipment towards their positions in al-Tah, al-Tamane'ah and Khan Sheikoun in Southern Idlib, killing a number of militants and destroying their military equipment.

Also, in Northern Hama, the Syrian army troops targeted the positions and movements of the terrorists in the towns of Jisr Beit al-Ra'as, al-Hawiz, Qastoun and al-Sramaniyeh in Sahl al-Qab in response to their missile attacks against the army points in the towns of al-Karim, Mashari and the residential areas in the towns of al-Rasif and al-Aziziyeh.

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