Today, Nour al-Din al-Zenki and HTS troops are an essential part of the operation to retake the strategic area, which is considered the lifeline between HTS and SNA-controlled territories, and the western shield of Aleppo city for the Syrian forces.

At least 18 people have been killed in fighting between Islamist rebels and Syrian government troops in north-west Syria, activists and a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said members of Hayat Tahrir al Sham,

Militant rebels in Syria overran an army base and took over at least 13 villages, in one of the biggest flare ups in violence in years in the north-east of the country. The rebels launched a surprise attack on the Syrian army in the northern province of Aleppo,