Dozens of soldiers and rebel fighters have reportedly been killed
Rebels have staged a large-scale terrorist attack in Syria’s Aleppo and Idlib provinces, the state-run SANA news agency in Damascus has reported, in the first such incident in years.
The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, launched the attack on Wednesday, according to SANA. Fighting is reportedly ongoing.
The rebels are said to have overrun at least ten areas under the control of the Syrian military, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said dozens of Syrian soldiers and rebel fighters have been killed since Wednesday.
HTS has been reduced to parts of Idlib province in the northwest of the country, thanks in part to Russia helping the Syrian government led by President Bashar Assad to defeat various rebel militants, including Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).
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