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News ID: 66369
Publish Date : 25 May 2019 - 21:01

Syrian Army Wards Off Terrorist Attacks in Hama, Idlib

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The Syrian Army has fended off attacks by terrorists in different battlefields of Aleppo which took place in a bid to back up other terrorists stationed in Hama and Idlib and as the Syrian Army continues ground and air offensives on terrorists' positions in the two provinces.
The Syrian Army troops engaged in fierce clashes with Tahrir al-Sham (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) and other terrorists who intended to attack the Syrian Army's military positions near Ma'aresteh al-Khan in northern Aleppo and thwarted their attacks after incurring heavy losses on them, a Syrian Army source said.
The source noted that the Syrian Army also warded off other terrorists' attacks on the towns of Nubl and al-Zahra in northern Aleppo, and said that the terrorist groups intended to disrupt the Syrian Army plan to launch military operations to liberate Hama, Idlib and Lattakia by conducting different attacks from different parts of Aleppo.
Meantime, the Arabic-language website of the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted a Syrian Army source as saying that the Syrian Army's artillery and missile units as well as Russian and Syrian warplanes have pounded the terrorists' military positions and movements in all axes of northern and northwestern Hama, including Khan Sheikhoun, al-Hobait, al-Qasebiyeh, Latmin, Kafr Zita and Mourek, destroying their points of attacks on the Syrian Army and safe zones in Hama and Idlib.
Terrorists in the Idlib de-escalation zone were preparing up to four vehicles filled with explosives to help them break through Syrian army defensive positions, the commander of the Russian centre for Syrian reconciliation said on Friday.
According to Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin, more than 800 terrorists, at least seven tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and 15 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns had already arrived in the southwest of the Idlib de-escalation zone. Illegal armed groups are bringing in reinforcements, weapons and military equipment to ??the town of Kafr Nabudah in Hama province.
"We have received information that the leaders of these terrorist groups have ordered to prepare up to four vehicles filled with explosives and driven by suicide bombers, in order to break through the Syrian army defenses," Kupchishin said at a daily briefing.
On Tuesday, Kupchishin said during a briefing that terrorists from the Nusra Front group attempted to attack Syrian army positions using tanks and vehicles filled with explosives.
He revealed that terrorists in Syria were planning chemical attacks in the Idlib de-escalation zone, as well as in the west of Aleppo province.
He added that terrorists operating in the Idlib de-escalation zone possess significant quantities of poisonous substances for use in staged provocations aimed at accusing the Syrian army of "chemical attacks" against the civilian population.