Nusra Front terrorists launch attack on Syria’s Idlib, report says
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorist elements have reportedly launched an offensive against Syrian forces in the northwestern city of Idlib, shelling its outskirts and warning residents to stay indoors.
The foreign-backed militants announced their military campaign to capture the city in an online message posted on Tuesday, claiming that they are “at the walls of Idlib” and intent on taking it over, calling on the local people to remain in their homes in the coming days, according to a statement by the UK-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
According to the observatory, the terrorists are targeting the city with artillery fire but have not yet initiated efforts to advance toward Idlib, a provincial capital with a population of about 165,000 people.
The group added that militants have been in control of the outskirts of the major city as well as many towns across the province since 2011. Government forces have maintained control over the city itself.
The observatory also stated that other Takfiri militants were involved in the armed campaign against Idlib.
On Monday, Human Rights Watch released a detailed report saying that foreign-backed militant groups have regularly resorted to terrorist attacks against purely civilian areas of Syria, using car bombs and rocket attacks among other means.
The HRW also called on certain regional and Western governments backing the militants in Syria to condemn “abuses” that anti-government groups commit and urge those groups “to cease deliberate, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against civilians.”
Syria has entered the fifth year of a foreign-sponsored war, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 215,000 people.
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