Breaking: Syrian Army, Hezbollah capture the strategic village of Al-Qarassi in southern Aleppo

Syrian Arab Army’s 4^th Mechanized Division – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) of Aleppo City, Hezbollah, and Harakat Al-Nujaba – imposed full control over the strategic village of Al-Qarassi in southern Aleppo after almost two weeks of intense firefights with the Islamist rebels of Jabhat Al-Nusra (Syrian Al-Qaeda group), Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham, Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki, and Liwaa Suqour Al-Sham.

According to a battlefield journalist that is embedded with Hezbollah in southern Aleppo, the Syrian Armed Forces and their allies seized Al-Qarassi after killing over 30+ enemy combatants from Jabhat Al-Nusra and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham; this high death toll has forced the aforementioned Islamist rebel groups to retreat west in order to decrease their casualties.

Al-Masdar News has received several preliminary reports from the southern Aleppo front this morning; however, many of these reports have yet to be verified and will be posted once they are confirmed by our military analysts.