On Sunday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s Special Forces – in coordination with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), the National Defense Forces (NDF), and Muqawama Souri (Syrian Resistance) – carried out a powerful assault in the Latakia Governorate’s northeastern countryside, resulting in the destruction of a number of armored vehicles and enemy hideouts.

The Syrian Armed Forces began their assault by targeting Jabhat Al-Nusra’s (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) defensive positions in Salma’s east district, killing 11 enemy combatants before they advanced to the eastern orchards inside this city located in northeastern Latakia.

Following their assault in Salma, the Syrian Armed Forces launched a powerful assault on the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Jabhat Al-Nusra’s positions inside the village of Mureij; this attack resulted in the death of 38 enemy combatants, all of whom, were reportedly foreigners from either Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Lebanon.

In addition to the death of 38 enemy combatants inside Mureij, the Syrian Armed Forces also destroyed a weapons depot and militant hideout that was used by the Islamist rebel fighters to conduct attacks on the SAA and NDF units in this area.

Fierce clashes between the Syrian Armed Forces and Jabhat Al-Nusra were also reported at the towns of Ghannam and Al-Rubiyah in northern Latakia.