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More than 100 al-Nusra Front militants have crossed turkey border and arrived in the Northern Province of Aleppo to join their comrades in the fight against the Syrian people, local sources said on Thursday. According to the residents of Kafar Hamra village in Aleppo, the terrorists entered the region through the bordering areas with Turkey. Also, informed sources said yesterday that tens of other terrorists crossed the Turkish border with Syria's Northern province of Aleppo to join their al-Nusra Front comrades. "A 70-member-group of terrorists, trained and supplied in Turkey, have entered Anadan in the territories of Northern Aleppo in groups to join the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front," Syria's Peace Coordination Center in Hmeimim said, adding, "The fresh terrorists have brought with themselves three vehicles loaded with ammunition and weapons." "Al-Nusra Front's terrorists' artillery units continued to shell two neighborhoods of Sheikh Ma

Syrian Army Repels Terrorists’ Attacks in Northwestern of Hama City The Syrian forces have thwarted the terrorists’ attacks on the army military posts in the direction of Khirbet al-Naqous village, some 90 km northwest of Hama city, a military source told Syrian Arab News Agency. The source added that a number of the terrorists were killed and a car loaded with ammunition and weapons and 3 vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns belonging to them were destroyed during the clashes. On Wednesday, local sources confirmed that around 100 terrorists from Jabaht al-Nusra crossed the Turkish border into Kafar Hamra village in northern Aleppo, along with a number of trucks that were transporting handmade ammunition with chlorine gas-producing toxic substances. VIDEO

The Syrian army forces backed by their allies have managed to cut off the terrorists' route to al-Sha'er oil and gas field in the Central province of Homs. The Syrian army forces launched a surprise attack on ISIS terrorists in the Northeastern part of Homs province and cut off their path linking the strategic town of Aqirabat in the Eastern parts of Hama to al-Shae'r oil field. Also, the army troops and popular forces made further advances in the Southeastern parts of al-Sha'er paving the ground for retaking the oil field. Aqirabat is the strategic stronghold of terrorists in Eastern Hama and hosts a large number of ISIL leaders' families. In a relevant development in the region, the Syrian army forces and their allies seized back control over several strategic points, including a strategic hilltop, in Homs following heavy clashes with ISIS terrorists. The Syrian army troops and National Defense Forces (NDF) took full control over Tal Sawwan in Homs province which