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Illustrative image On March 11, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) announced in a statement released by its official news agency Iba’a that the Syrian Liberation Front (SLF) had broken  the 48 hour-long ceasefire agreement, which was reached on March 9 . HTS also accused the SLF of conducting a series of attacks against its fighters during the ceasefire. Later, several Syrian opposition sources confirmed that HTS had resumed its attack against the SLF around the villages of al-A’jil and Bsarton in western Aleppo. Iba’a agency reported that HTS fighters had destroyed a SLF vehicle armed with 23mm and had captured several SLF fighters. From its side, the SLF revealed in an official statement that HTS had rejected all the initiatives, which had been presented to it in order to end the ongoing conflict in northern Syrian peacefully. The SLF statement confirmed that HTS had only accepted the ceasefire agreement to reorganize its fighters and to launch a new attack. The SLF-linked n...

On March 11, Houthi fighters conducted a hit and run attack against a border post of the Saudi Army in the N’ashau area in the Saudi province of Jizan bordring Yemen, according to the pro-Houthi al-Masirah TV. The TV channel said that the Houthis had killed over two Saudi Army soldiers and had injured many others. Moreover, the border post was burned down. Meanwhile, the Houthis media wing reported that Houthi snipers had killed four other soldiers of the Saudi Army in different areas of Jizan. Houthis fighters also targeted several fortifications of the Saudi Army in the al-Khubah border post in Jizan with a B-10 recoilless rifle, according to the movement’s media. Thw new wave of attacks in Jizan province came a day after  the Houthis had managed to storm a border post of the Saudi Army in the al-Dabiea area of Najran province . So far, the Saudi-led coalition has failed to secure the Yemeni-Saudi border in the southern part of the provinces of Jizan and Najran, although it ...