Jaysh al-Izza announced on May 28 that five of its fighters were killed in the northern Hama countryside by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
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The radical group didn’t provide additional details about the militants’ fate. However, opposition activists revealed that they were besieged inside a cave in the town of Kafr Nabudah.
According to the activists, the militants got trapped inside the cave when the SAA stormed the town on May 26. The army asked them to surrender. However, they refused. An attempt to free them also failed. Eventually, Syrian soldiers threw several hand grenades into the cave killing everyone inside.
Many other militants of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) were reportedly trapped in the same cave with Jaysh al-Izza fighters and shared the same fate. However, HTS, as usually, didn’t acknowledge its losses.
The incident shade some light on the heavy losses of militants in Kafr Nabudah. Earlier, ANNA released a video showing many battle tanks and vehicles of HTS destroyed inside the town.
