Syrian army and allied forces supported by Russian warplanes have made further advances in their offensive against insurgents with the fiercest clashes for nearly a week, a monitoring group said.
Russian jets carried out at least 30 airstrikes on the town of Kafr Nabuda, Hama province, in western Syria, and hundreds of shells hit the area as the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters seized part of it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have recaptured territory close to the government’s coastal heartland in the west in the past few days thanks to Russia’s intervention, reversing rebel advances made earlier this year.