After the liberation of the Jund Al-Aqsa area, pro-government forces continued operations against the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorist coalition [led by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda)] in the western countryside of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) attacked militants in the areas of Rashidin 4 and Rashidin 5. An intense fihting is ongoing there.
If the army and the NDF are able to make gains in these highly defended areas, it will be a major breakthrough which could allow government forces to secure an important areas near the M5 and 60 roads.
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