Syria Army Inflicts Losses on Terrorists in Hama
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syrian forces carried out special operations against terrorist groups in Hama in response to their continued violations of a de-escalation zones agreement in the northern province.
Syrian forces targeted the positions of a terror outfit affiliated to Al-Nusra Front militant group on the outskirts of Ma’arkaba village in the northern countryside, SANA reported.
The report added that scores of the militants were killed and injured during the retaliatory attack.
The clashes broke out in a planned buffer zone, which surrounds Idlib and also parts of the adjacent provinces of Aleppo and Hama.
Under a deal reached following a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in September, all militants should have withdrawn from the demilitarization zone by October 15.
However, al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri terrorists said they refuse to either leave the buffer zone or hand over their weapons.
Moscow believed that the 15-20 kilometer buffer zone would help stop attacks from Idlib-based militants on Syrian army positions and Russia's military bases in the flashpoint region.
Idlib and some surrounding areas are the last major bastions of Takfiri terrorists and anti-government militants in Syria, where the Syrian government has in recent months retaken much of the territory it had lost since the conflict erupted in the country in 2011.
