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Fighting in Northwest Syria Kill Scores of Fighters

Associated Press

   BEIRUT, LEBANON - Syrian government forces and insurgents fought fierce
   battles that left dozens dead in the country's northwest Friday as
   troops tried to regain control of two villages they lost earlier this
   month, state media and an opposition war monitor said.

   Syrian state news agency SANA said the army carried out "intense rocket
   and artillery strikes" on insurgent positions on the front line in the
   central province of Hama and nearby Idlib that is the last major rebel
   stronghold in Syria's civil war, now In its ninth year.

   SANA said the aim of the bombing is to destroy fortifications built by
   insurgents, many of them members of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir
   al-Sham, or HTS. It said the strikes were mostly near the villages of
   Jubayn and Tel Milh adding that they inflicted many casualties among
   the insurgents.

   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition
   war monitor, said troops were trying to capture the villages of Jubayn
   and Tel Milh launching an offensive around dawn Friday. The group said
   during Friday's fighting alone, 51 troops and pro-government gunmen
   were killed as well as 45 insurgents.
   

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