The group defeated the major anti-government group, Ahrar al-Sham, July 2017, and thus cemented its territorial and military control over most of those parts of Idlib, Hama, and Aleppo governorates that had been under anti-government control. ..…

The Syrian Army also pounded the terrorists' movements in the town of al-Haviz in Sahl al-Ghab in Western Hama, killing and injuring a large number of them and forcing the remaining militants to retreat. . In Southern Idlib, the Syrian Army units also inflicted heavy casualties and losses on..…