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Syria: Army focuses on al-Qaida as truce holds elsewhere
SYRIAN troops kept up the fight against al-Qaida north-west of Damascus yesterday as the UN-backed ceasefire entered its fourth day.
The army renewed its offensive against the Levant Conquest Front (LCF) — the rebranded Nusra Front — in Ayn al-Fijah, east of Wadi Barada, after being forced to abandon their recently gained positions north of the town overnight.
A military source in Damascus told the pro-government Al-Masdar News that soldiers of the 4th Mechanised Division had broken through to the outskirts of the village.
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