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Syrian government's counteroffensive pushes insurgents back from Hama
But a jihadist group claims to have captured more Syrian troops and allied fighters in fierce battles

SYRIA’S government said today its counteroffensive had pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic central city of Hama.

Meanwhile, the insurgents, led by the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group, claimed to have captured more Syrian troops and allied fighters in fierce battles.

The latest flare-up in Syria’s long civil war comes after forces opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad captured large parts of the northern city of Aleppo, the country’s largest, as well as towns and villages in the south of the north-western province of Idlib.

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