Dozens killed as armed groups attack Syrian military in northern Aleppo

Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham fighters are reported to person captured Syrian service weapons depots and taken armoured vehicles during attacks.

Dozens of Syrian service soldiers and rebel fighters person been killed successful bluish Aleppo state wherever the Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) equipped radical and allied forces person overrun astatine slightest 10 areas nether the power of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military, according to reports.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said astir 100 fighters and soldiers were killed during clashes connected Wednesday, pursuing an cognition launched by HTS, which controls a ample country of northwestern Syria.

Activists moving with the observatory reported 44 members of HTS killed on with 16 members of allied equipped groups.

“Moreover, 37 members of the [Syrian] authorities forces including astatine slightest 4 officers of antithetic ranks were killed and 5 members were captured, portion limb depots, armoured vehicles, machineries and dense weapons were taken over,” the observatory said successful a statement.

The monitoring radical besides said that civilians, including children, person been killed and injured successful the clashes, which saw Syrian service forces occurrence “hundreds of shells and missiles connected civilian and subject positions” during the fighting.

HTS fighters and their allies precocious astir 10km (6 miles) from the outskirts of Aleppo metropolis and a fewer kilometres distant from Nubl and Zahra, 2 predominately Shia towns wherever the Iran-backed Hezbollah radical has a strong-armed presence, a Syrian service root told the Reuters quality agency.

HTS forces besides attacked the al-Nayrab airdrome eastbound of Aleppo, wherever pro-Iranian fighters person outposts.

Reuters quality bureau reported that the violative was prompted by stepped-up aerial strikes successful caller weeks against civilians by the Russian and Syrian aerial force connected areas successful Syria’s confederate Idlib, and besides to preempt immoderate attacks by the Syrian army, which was gathering up troops adjacent beforehand lines with HTS and different groups.

Official authorities media successful Syria did not study the warring but pro-government websites said the service had pounded HTS hideouts and killed dozens.

Witnesses said hundreds of families successful Aleppo, the past refuge for opponents of al-Assad, fled to safer areas on the Turkish border.

HTS, which is listed arsenic a “terrorist organisation” by the United States, has agelong been targeted by the Syrian authorities and Russian forces.

Severing ties to the transnational al-Qaeda group, HTS has rebranded itself successful caller years and portrays itself arsenic a much mean radical with section aims successful Syria. It has go the astir almighty rebel radical successful northwestern Syria.

Russia entered the Syrian civilian warfare successful 2015 connected the broadside of President al-Assad arsenic his regularisation looked progressively nether menace from rebel forces.

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