BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 A.M.) – There may be up to two thousand militants – most of them jihadists – opposing the Syrian Arab Army and allies forces in a key area of strategic terrain that spans a big part of northern Hama province as well as some of southeast Idlib province according to pro-government sources.
Pro-government sources – including the ANNA battlefield news team – confidently estimate that up to two thousand rebel fighters, the vast majority of them being jihadists, are holding out within the large (and long-standing) rebel salient that protrudes into northern Hama towards the province’s capital city.
Within this greater bastion has lay a number of rebel-held fortress towns that serve a key strongholds and give high strategic value to the terrain they dominate, these being Morek, Khan Sheikhoun, Kafr Zita and Al-Latamenah.
At the present time, the main armed groups opposing Syrian army-led forces on the northern Hama, southeast Idlib battlefield have been identified as Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda), Ahrar al-Sham (Muslim Brotherhood affiliate), Jaysh al-Izza and the Free Idlib Army.
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