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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and its allies have withdrawn from 3 more villages in the northeastern countryside of Hama under the pressure of government forces.
Last night, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the National Defense Forces (NDF) liberated the villages of Rasm Abu Miyal and Murayjeb Jumlan located west of the important government-held town of Ithriyah, near the administrative border between Aleppo and Hama provinces. Some sources say that the SAA and the NDF also took control of Al-Khafiyah.
If these reports are confirmed with photos and videos, this will allow to conclude that government forces are successfully using the ongoing clashes between ISIS and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) for own operation, which could be wider than experts had expected.
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