Nusra Front rebels attack two Shia villages in Syria
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – Insurgents affiliated to al-Qaeda terrorists detonated at least five car bombs and fired 370 rockets at two Shia villages in northwestern Syria, they have besieged for more than a year, activists have said.
An alliance of insurgent groups, including Al Nusra Front, attacked Al Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province bordering Turkey and mostly held by insurgents after rebel advances this year.
Thousands of innocent civilians have been living under siege in the two villages. Fierce clashes raged between government forces and insurgents of the ‘Army of Conquest’, a coalition of terrorist groups that includes Al Nusra Front and Ahrar Al Sham.
The number of casualties was not immediately clear.
Warring sides agreed to a brief ceasefire last month in the two villages and in Zabadani, a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border under siege by government forces and Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, a Damascus ally.
But the two-day ceasefire, the second that month, collapsed before wounded people could be evacuated from both areas.
Government forces have intensified assault on Zabadani and say they are on the verge of seizing the town, where insurgents are holed up in its centre.
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