Syrian Army Overwhelms the Terrorists in Northeast Latakia

On Friday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s Special Forces – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) – carried out a powerful assault on the Islamist rebels of “Jabhat Al-Nusra” (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) at Al-Kabeer, killing 16 enemy combatants inside this town in the Latakia Governorate’s northeastern countryside.

According to a military source in Latakia, the Syrian Armed Forces destroyed three armored vehicles mounted with a 23mm anti-aircraft machine gun, while also clearing a small hilltop before noon on Friday.

The source added that many of the Islamist rebels killed by the Syrian Armed Forces were foreigners; this included militants of Syrian descent and militants from Libya, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Chechnya, and Tunisia.

Among the reported dead enemy combatants were the following:

Mohammad Al-Sawaal (Idlib)
Hassan Ghobani (Idlib)
‘Umar Al-Jaali (Idlib)
Salim ‘Abeidat (Hama)
Hassan ‘Azqoul (Idlib)
Ma’maiz Qoubaan (Libyan)
Nasser ‘Abdullah (Saudi)
Ghannem Anamou (Turkman)
Samer Qara (Turkmann)