Syrian forces on Friday targeted the positions of terrorists in the areas of al-Ankawi, al-Huwaiz, al-Sharia, Qalet al-Madiq, and al-Huwaija in Hama’s northwestern countryside and inflicted heavy losses on them, SANA reported.
The counterattack came after the militants attempted to target the army posts in the areas and in fact violated the de-escalation zone agreement reached following a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi on September 17.
The Syrian government’s attacks on terrorists’ positions in Idlib and Hama come in the wake of reports that members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, together with militants from the so-called Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria, are mounting chemical warheads on more than a hundred missiles in cooperation with European experts in Idlib.