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Insurgents edge closer to Assad's Syrian stronghold as IS claims more villages
Date
August 10, 2015 - 12:23AM
Fighters from a coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al-Fateh, also known as Army of Fatah, rest after clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Hama countryside. Photo: Ammar Abdullah
Beirut: Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 rival insurgents in an overnight attack in Syria's Aleppo province and 20 fighters remain missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory, said a suicide bomber from the hardline group on Saturday blew himself up at a military post held by a group of rival insurgents in the Umm Housh village in northern Aleppo countryside.
Islamic State fighters then seized the village after heavy clashes with rival groups.
A Nusra Front fighter is pictured in the town of Safsafa after clashes with Syrian government forces. Photo: Ammar Abdullah
Meanwhile, insurgents have regained control of several villages in north-west Syria from government forces and have advanced beyond them, edging closer to a coastal stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.
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The insurgents launched a counter-offensive after government forces, backed by allied militant groups, last week recaptured the villages on the Sahl al-Ghab plain, which lies close to the city of Hama and is crucial to the defence of coastal mountains that are the heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect.
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: Insurgents edge closer to Assad s Syrian stronghold as IS claims more villages
Insurgents edge closer to Assad's Syrian stronghold as IS claims more villages
Date
August 10, 2015 - 12:23AM
Fighters from a coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al-Fateh, also known as Army of Fatah, rest after clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Hama countryside. Photo: Ammar Abdullah
Beirut: Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 rival insurgents in an overnight attack in Syria's Aleppo province and 20 fighters remain missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory, said a suicide bomber from the hardline group on Saturday blew himself up at a military post held by a group of rival insurgents in the Umm Housh village in northern Aleppo countryside.
Islamic State fighters then seized the village after heavy clashes with rival groups.
A Nusra Front fighter is pictured in the town of Safsafa after clashes with Syrian government forces. Photo: Ammar Abdullah
Meanwhile, insurgents have regained control of several villages in north-west Syria from government forces and have advanced beyond them, edging closer to a coastal stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.
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The insurgents launched a counter-offensive after government forces, backed by allied militant groups, last week recaptured the villages on the Sahl al-Ghab plain, which lies close to the city of Hama and is crucial to the defence of coastal mountains that are the heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect.
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: Insurgents edge closer to Assad s Syrian stronghold as IS claims more villages
