According to the sources, the radicals took advantage of the dense fog and tried to advance and attack positions of the Armed Forces near the strategic highway that connects Aleppo with Damascus.

They added that violent clashes broke out and the army used artillery to disperse the jihadists and eliminate several of them, while the rest fled.

Two soldiers died and others were injured during the failed extremist offensive, they said.

Radical groups entrenched in Idlib, operating under the umbrella of the Levant Liberation Board, formerly al-Nousra Front, an internationally listed terrorist group, commit constant violations of the de-escalation zone regime in the referred governance.

The Syrian national army managed during its operations in 2020 to liberate 56 percent of Idlib, with the assistance of the Russian Armed Forces, nevertheless, the jihadists still control the rest of the region, where they hold hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields.

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