Government thwarts infiltration attempt in Syria’s Latakia
DAMSCUS, Syria (North Press) – Syria’s Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that its forces thwarted an attempt by a “terrorist group” to infiltrate one of its posts in the northern countryside of Latakia, west Syria.
The state-run SANA news agency said, quoting a statement by the Ministry of Defense, “A unit of our armed forces operating in the direction of the northern Lattakia countryside confronted a terrorist group that tried to infiltrate one of our military posts.”
“Our armed forces managed to kill and injure most of the group’s members, and pull out bodies of three of the dead terrorists,” according to the statement.
Meanwhile, al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room – which includes Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the National Front for Liberation, the Army of Glory (Jaysh al-Izza), and other armed factions – announced that it had destroyed a tank belonging to the Syrian government forces by targeting it with a guided missile near the village of Qal’at Shalaf in the northern countryside of Latakia.