21 violations by extremists against the Syrian army took place in Idlib, 10 in Latakia, four in Hama and another four in Aleppo, stated Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, Deputy Chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, based in the Russian base of Khmeimim.

The officer specified that a Syrian soldier died and two were wounded in the attacks, while some 70 radicals were killed when the Syrian troops responded to the attacks.

In Idlib, 320 kilometers north of Damascus, extremist organizations are deployed such as the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, also Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, formerly the Al-Nusra Front; and the Islamic Party of Turkestan, made up of mercenaries of the Chinese Uyghur ethnic group.

The Syrian army managed to liberate 56 percent of the province during its operations in 2020, and the terrorists currently control less than half, where they retain hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields and constantly violate the ceasefire, attacking the army and the civilian population.

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