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On December 14, a fighter of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) was killed and three other were injured when the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) targeted their position in the village of Khuwayn in the northern Hama countryside with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), according to the SMART News Agency.
In the northwestern Hama countryside, the SAA artillery shelled several positions of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) around the town of Ziyarah. Several artillery and mortar pieces of the terrorist group were reportedly destroyed.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that the SAA carried out these attacks in response to new violations of the Russian-Turkish demilitarized zone agreement.
These repeated violations of the demilitarized zone agreement may eventually force the SAA and its allies to launch a limited military operation against militants around the northern governorate of Idlib. Such an operation could force the militants to respect the agreement.
