AhlulBayt News Agency - On Tuesday in the Latakia Governorate’s northern countryside, the Syrian Arab Army’s 103rd Brigade (commandos) of the Republican Guard – backed by the 48th Special Forces Regiment, the Syrian Marines, the National Defense Forces (NDF), and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) – continued their advance towards the final Turkish border-crossing, striking the extremist rebel defenses at the villages of Sundreen and Al-Hayat.
While the Syrian Armed Forces were advancing from the village of Saraf to Sundreen, the Turkish Army began to shell their positions inside Jabal Al-Akrad (Kurdish Mountains) and Jabal Al-Turkmen (Turkmen Mountains), wounding a number of soldiers and journalists in the process.
However, Turkey’s military aggression was not enough to forestall the Syrian Arab Army’s advance in northern Latakia, as they were able to advance in several areas around Jabal Al-Akrad and Jabal Al-Turkmen.
Turkey has recently intensified their shelling of northern Latakia in response to the Syrian Arab Army’s rapid advance against the rebel forces of Jabhat Al-Nusra (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) and the Free Syrian Army’s “1st Coastal Brigade”.
There is not much the Turkish Army can do these days, thanks in large part to the Russian Air Force’s presence above the Latakia Governorate; however, they continue to shell the Syrian Army in order to aid the retreating rebels.
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