Fatah Army on Friday advanced
towards a military airport that is the last remaining regime-held
facility in the northwestern province of Idlib, activists and monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the alliance of Islamist groups led by al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front “seized the entrance” to the Abu Duhur airport after carrying out several suicide bombings on motorbikes and “seizing several positions on its outskirts,” AFP reported.
State-run media said the army had “killed a large number of al-Nusra terrorists and destroyed their arms and equipment” at the facility.
The Observatory said air strikes were launched in response to the onslaught, and that 16 Syrian soldiers and 18 rebels were killed in the fighting.
Fatah Army, or the Army of Conquest, has captured the Idlib provincial capital in March and has since driven the Syrian regime military from most of the province.
Zaman Al Wasl
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