Morning Star.png Syria: Key Town of Salma Back Under Army Control The Morning Star, London, 13 January 2016 Syrian army troops retook the strategic town of Salma in northern Latakia province yesterday. The state-run Sana news agency reported that soldiers backed by the National Defence Forces militia had driven the al-Qaeda- affiliated Nusra Front and its local allies the Ahrar al-Sahel Brigade from the town and surrounding villages. Salma lies a few miles south-west of Jisr-al-Shughur, seen as the key to advancing on the city of Idlib - also held by the Nusra Front and the Army of Conquest - beyond which lies government-held Aleppo. North-east of Idlib lie the besieged villages of Foua and Kfarya, where UN aid convoys arrived on Monday in parallel with deliveries to rebel-held Madaya. On Monday Syria's permanent representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari accused militants in Madaya of seizing previous government aid shipments and using civilians as human shields. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c320-Syria-Key-town-of-Salma-back-unde r-army-control#.VpXTrvl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c320-Syria-Key-town-of-Salma-back-under -army-control#.VpXTrvl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
