The Ahrar A-Sham movement, the Nusra Front and Soqour Al-Jabal brigades led opposition shelling on regime positions in Idlib, northern Syria, rebels said yesterday.
Opposition forces besieged the city from three hubs and targeted regime forces using mortars, B9 cannons and locally made projectiles. A high number of opposition fighters were gathered ready to take over the city.
“The operation come in retaliation for the regime’s massacres committed against civilians in the suburbs of Idlib and Hama and aims to save civilians from regime repression,” Abu Al-Layth, a military commander of Soqour Al-Jabal brigades, told the Anadolu Agency.
“Thus, [we are] cutting supply lines of regime-controlled Kafarya and Al-Fuah villages to besiege them.”
Opposition forces control most of the province of Idlib’s suburbs.
Syrian opposition groups agreed to unite under the “Al-Sham Front” banner on 25 October 2014, except for Nusra Front which has links with Al-Qaeda.