08-11-2024 12:40 PM Jerusalem Timing

Infighting Intensifies among Rival Armed Groups in Syria’s Idlib

Infighting Intensifies among Rival Armed Groups in Syria’s Idlib

Hundreds of militants were killed on Tuesday in fierce fighting between the Al-Qaeda-affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its rival so-called Syrian Revolutionary Front in Idlib countryside.

Syria: Armed groupsHundreds of militants were killed on Tuesday in fierce fighting between the Al-Qaeda-affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its rival so-called Syrian Revolutionary Front in Idlib countryside, Al-Alam website reported.

The Al-Nusra Front and its foe resumed fighting on October 27 after several months of truce.

On its Twitter page, Al-Nusra Front announced that it seized 10 tanks, 4 vehicles, 80 BGM-71 TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided) missiles, 130 cannons and an arms cache from the rival militant group.

Also in the past 24 hours, the Syrian army targeted militants' strongholds in the outskirts of Hama and al-Quneitra provinces, killing and wounding a large number of anti-government gunmen in the battlefronts.

The Syrian troops raided militants' assembly points in Um Batina road in rural Quneitra which resulted in the killing, wounding and the capture of a large number of militiamen.

The national military thwarted as well an attempt by a terrorist group to infiltrate al-Habbariyeh from Deir Maker in the countryside of the Southwestern province, killing most of the group’s members and wounding others.