Syrian Army to Kick Off Massive Military Operations in Hama, Lattakia
The Syrian army troops are now prepared for launching an imminent military operation in Idlib and Hama provinces as the army’s heavy weapons are also ready to be fired, a battlefield commander reported.
The commander pointed to the recent visit of the Syrian Defense Minister General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub to the Syrian army’s positions in Hama, Idlib and Lattakia, and said, “General Ayyoub’s visit indicated that the Syrian army’s ground operations in Idlib province is imminent.”
Meantime, the Arabic-language al-Masdar news website quoted battlefield sources as saying that the Syrian army will start is military operations in Northern Lattakia within the next few days from three directions towards Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal Turkman regions.
It noted that the Syrian army is intending to take control of the city of Kabani which overlooks the Northern parts of al-Ghab plains.
These developments come as the Syrian army has dispatched tens of thousands of its forces along with its military equipment and weapons to battlefields in Hama and Idlib over the past few months.
In a relevant development on Sunday, the Syrian Army sent more troops and equipment to the Northwestern parts of the country on Sunday to reinvigorate its combat capabilities for an imminent major operation in Idlib province.
The army forwarded a long convoy of military vehicles and tank-carrying trucks along with a large number of fresh soldiers to Idlib and Northern Hama to end terrorists’ presence in Idlib, Aleppo, Lattakia, and Hama provinces.
In the meantime, a field source reported that hundreds of fresh army men have been deployed at contact lines with Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists and militants of the Operation Olive Branch in Afrin in recent days.
The sources further said that the army is planning to kick off a large-scale operation in different flanks to liberate Idlib province.
Meanwhile, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV Network reported that the terrorists that come from China and are known as Uyghur as well as Turkistani and Uzbek militants have transferred their family members to the borders with Turkey in Idlib and Lattakia provinces.
