Militants leave key Idlib town, last Hama stronghold after Syrian army advances

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Militants leave key Idlib town, last Hama stronghold after Syrian army advances

backed militants have reportedly withdrawn from a key town in Syria’s embattled Idlib Province as well as their last bastion in the nearby province of Hama, as government forces make more gains in the northwest. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and local sources reported Tuesday that the militants had pulled out the town of Khan Shaykhun in the southern part of Idlib and a nearby area in neighboring Hama Province. The withdrawal came after Syrian army troops and their allied fighters managed to enter Khan Shaykhun, ...

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