Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham fighters are said to have seized Syrian army weapons stores and armoured vehicles during the attacks.
At least dozens of Syrian soldiers and rebel fighters have been killed in northern Aleppo province, according to a war monitor, as Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) armed group and allied forces overrun at least 10 areas under the control of President Bashar al-Assad’s military.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said 132 fighters and soldiers were killed during the clashes on Wednesday following an operation launched by HTS, which controls a large area of northwestern Syria.
Activists working with SOHR, which uses a network of sources inside Syria, said Thursday that 65 members of the HTS, 18 from allied armed groups and 49 from government forces, were killed.
“Weapon depots, armoured vehicles … and heavy weapons were taken over,” according to activists. During the fighting, the Syrian army released no stout statement, carried by ThursdaySabout ANA.
It stated that “a major and large-scale terrorist attack, with large numbers of terrorists and using medium and heavy weapons”, had targeted villages, towns and military sites.
