DHAKA: A rebel coalition including Al-Qaeda’s local affiliate seized the Syrian regime’s largest remaining military base in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday, after an explosion and heavy clashes.

A monitor said, reports The Straits Times.

‘All regime forces have withdrawn from Al-Mastumah, the largest regime base in Idlib, leaving it completely in the hands of opposition fighters,’ Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the media.

The rebel alliance that seized the camp calls itself the ‘Army of Conquest’ and includes Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and other Islamist factions.

‘With the help of God, Al-Mastumah was completely liberated after Al-Nusra Front stormed it from the south,’ the affiliate wrote on its official Twitter account.

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