The Syrian army fought heavy battles with insurgents for control of a hilltop in a mountainous range close to Leticia’s coastal heartland, local and witnesses says.
The fighting was centered around Jub al Ahmar, a highland area in Latakia province which would allow the army to more effectively pound rebel positions in the nearby Ghab Plain, said Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the London Based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Footage shows Syrian Air Force Pounding terrorist position in neighbourhood of Idlib and Hama.
Picture released by SANA, shows Syrian army units and pro-government forces advancing in western country in a "vast offensive" against armed groups, as Russian escalating military activity against ISIS in the war-torn country.
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