Ankara Sends Advanced Military Equipment to Terrorists in Idlib

The Turkish army recently sent several military convoys to Northern Hama and Jbal Al-Zawiyeh region, the Arabic-language Xeber24 news website quoted a battlefield source in Idlib province as saying on Wednesday.

News ID: 445164

Date: 30 May 2019 - 19:54

RNA - The Turkish army recently sent several military convoys to Northern Hama and Jbal Al-Zawiyeh region, the Arabic-language Xeber24 news website quoted a battlefield source in Idlib province as saying on Wednesday.

Idlib

The source pointed to the reinforcement of the military positions in areas under the Ankara's occupation in Northern Syria, and said that terrorist commanders have received tens of armored vehicles, missile launchers as well as anti-tank and TOW missiles.

Meantime, a commander of Jeish al-Izzeh terrorist group, namely Jamil al-Saleh, called for Turkish Army's further aids for its allied militants in Northern Syria to confront the Syrian Army after they earned control of the strategic town of Naboudeh.

Meantime, the terrorist groups in Northern Hama once again hit the town of Qamhaneh as well as the cities of Salhab and al-Saqilbieh in Northern Hama, killing and wounding eight civilians.

Also in the past 24 hours, reports said that the Syrian army was preparing to regain full control of a strategic region in Southern Idlib as new military convoys of the Syrian Army arrived in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib.

The Syrian Army has dispatched a large number of troops and massive military equipment to its military positions in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib to reinforce its military points in Kafar Naboudeh strategic region in Northern Hama near borders with Idlib.

Meantime, the Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper pointed to the preparations by the Syrian Army to attack al-Hobait strategic region in Southern Idlib, and said that the Syrian Army heavily pounded the terrorists' military positions and hideouts in the region.

The Syrian Army's ground and air forces also pounded the terrorists' military positions near Mourek, al-Zuka, al-Arbaeen and the town of Shar-e Naz in Jabal Shahshabou in Northern and Northwestern Hama and Kafar Anoid, Khan al-Sabal, Hazarin, Sheikh Mustafam, Kafar Nubl and Tarmala in Southern Idlib, destroying all targets, it added.

Battlefield sources in Northern Syria also said that a large number of terrorists and their commander, including a senior terrorist commander of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front), Abu al-Fath al-Farqali nom de guerre al-Mo'atasem Bellah al-Madani, were killed.

Meantime, the terrorist groups stationed in Northern Hama targeted residential areas in the town of Qamhaneh and the city of Salhab in Northern and Northwestern Hama with rockets.

Also media reports on Wednesday quoted Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari as saying that foreign-backed Takfiri militants based in the Northwestern Idlib Province were using civilians as “human shields”, stressing the government’s commitment to protecting its people from the scourge of terrorism.

Speaking at a UN Security Council session on the situation in Syria, Ja’afari stated that the al-Nusra Front terrorist group, which occupies most of Idlib, continues its acts of aggression against the region’s adjacent areas and the Syrian army positions.

He also emphasized that Syria reserves the right to safeguard its citizens from terror.

“Syria will liberate all its territory from terrorism and from any illegitimate foreign presence in the country,” Ja’afari noted, adding, “Syria will spare no effort to rescue its citizens from the dominance of terrorist organizations in Idlib, which take people as human shields and to put an end to the attacks of those terrorists on civilians in the neighboring towns and cities.”

According to Fars News Agancy, Ja’afari also complained that some Security Council member states have, since the beginning of the Syria crisis, been trying to exploit the humanitarian issue in order to defame the Syrian government and tarnish its image.

Deir Ezzur

The corpses of a large number of victims of the ISIL terrorist group were discovered in a mass grave in one of the terrorists' prisons in Eastern Deir Ezzur.

The Baladi News Website reported that the residents of the town of al-Sha'afeh in Eastern Deir Ezzur found the mass grave in a home that was used by the ISIL as jail.

It noted that since the ISIL has used their house as its prison, it is possible that terrorists before withdrawing from the region have executed the civilians.

Homs

The US-backed militants are asking for a large amount of money from the civilians willing to leave the besieged al-Rukban refugee camp in al-Tanf region in Homs province.

The US-backed Maghavir al-Thoura terrorist group has increased its pressures to prevent the civilians from leaving al-Rukban Camp near the border with Iraq, the Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying.

The sources noted that the terrorist groups have asked for between $400 to $1,000 from the civilians to allow them to leave the refugee camp.

A sum of 14,000 people, including a large number of women and children have managed to escape al-Rukban Refugee Camp towards the newly-liberated regions by the Syrian Army.

The residents of al-Rukban Camp are willing to exit the camp due to deteriorating humanitarian conditions and shortage of foodstuff.

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