Terrorists Continue Attacking Syrian Army from Demilitarized Zone

The army’s artillery units targeted a group of terrorists that tried to prevail over the government forces’ positions in the town of Souran from their positions near the town of Morek in the demilitarized zone in Northern Hama, killing the entire members of the group.

In the meantime, other artillery units pounded terrorists’ movements, deployed in the village of Tal al-Sakhar in the demilitarized zone, and repelled their attack on army positions North of Mahradah region.

The terrorist group suffered heavy casualties and pulled the remaining pockets of fighters back from the battlefield.

Meanwhile, artillery units targeted the positions of a group of terrorists in the small town of Skeik in Khan Sheikhoun region in Southern Idlib, destroying their machinegun and mortar launch-pad positions.

Also, Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syrian Sergei Somalatin said that two Syrian soldiers were killed or wounded in terrorists’ attacks.

He further said that the terrorists have attacked the army’s strongholds in Sandaran, Abu Zali, Tal al-Tout in Lattakia, Ma’an, Kabriyah, Tal Mark, Qabibah Abu al-Hadah in Hama, Zahabiyah and al-Sakari neighborhoods in Aleppo city and also Northwestern, Western and Southwestern Aleppo in the  last 24 hours.

The terrorists’ refusal to implement the Sochi Agreement to establish a demilitarized zone is pushing the army to initiate its long-waited assault on militants in Idlib that had been put on hold due to the Sochi Agreement.

Colonel Mar’ei Hamdan, a Syrian military expert, was quoted by the Arabic-language website of Sputnik news agency as saying last month that Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) is in control of nearly 70% of towns and villages in Idlib province and makes provocative moves against the Syrian army, adding that the army’s commitment to decrease tensions is not lasting forever.

He added that the Syrian army has so far repelled all attacks by terrorists against its positions and inflicted heavy damages on them, noting that the army is now necessitated to come out of the defensive mood to retake control of Idlib.

Hamdan said that Tahrir al-Sham will resort to a full-scale military operation against the Syrian and Russian armies soon, after rejecting the Sochi agreement last October, which leaves no room for ceasefire or disarmament anymore, and underlined that the Syrian army’s battle against Tahrir al-Sham is inevitable.

Meantime, the Turkey-backed Ahrar al-Sham and National Liberation Front (NLF) terrorist groups has also dismissed the Russian-Turkish Sochi agreement and is preparing for military operations against the army in Northern Syria, calling for a coalition with Tahrir al-Sham.

Tahrir al-Sham and other allied terrorist groups have not left the demilitarized zone two months after the Sochi agreement and have instead reinvigorated their strongholds and targeted the army positions every day.

Relevant reports said that the Turkey-backed NLF had put its gunmen on alert to launch a heavy offensive against the Syrian army in the demilitarized zone in Idlib province.