Five hundred Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants tried to attack the positions of the government army in the north of Hama. SAA officers managed to stop their attack.
According to the Federal News Agency, the incident occurred early in the morning in the highway area 56 Hama is in Sarmada. To attack the positions of the SAA, more than 500 jihadists supported by tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. They launched hostilities between recently liberated Kafr Nabuda and Mharde.. Militants carried out at least four attacks on the weakly covered flank of the Syrian forces.
Despite this, government forces were able to contain and flee the jihadists. During a failed attack, the terrorist coalition, controlled by "Jabhat al-Nusra" 11 (banned in Russia under the decision of the Supreme Court), lost more 100 militants, five tanks and three infantry fighting vehicles. The CAA also destroyed nine terrorist pickups with heavy machine guns and several MLRS and mortars.. At the moment, the surviving militants are retreating back towards Al-Latamina.
Previously, our site reported, that the militants are creating a strike group in the Syrian provinces of Hama and Latakia. They are trying to oust the Syrian government army from the region.
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