27 12 2018 :

SYRIAN WAR REPORT – DEC. 27, 2018: LARGE NUMBER OF SYRIAN TROOPS DEPLOYED NEAR MANBIJ On December 26, militants of the al-Qaeda-linked Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room conducted a hit and run attack on several positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in northern Lattakia. According to pro-militant sources, over 20 SAA soldiers were killed. Another version of the events claims that the SAA repelled the attack in the villages of Nakhshiba, Ruysat al-Malik and Ayn al-Qantra killing most of the attackers. In late November, Wa Harid al-Muminin carried out a similar attack on SAA positions in northern Lattakia. At that time, 5 militants were killed by the SAA. The SAA deployed hundreds of well-equipped soldiers from the 1st Division and the Republican Guards west of the town of Manbij, which is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).