
“We launched our assault from the North [of Al Sheikh Maskin]. We do not control the North and the East… By taking this town, we split the rebels in two,” Syrian Army General Hassan told Gazdiev.
The main road through the town, the highway leading to the city of Daraa in the south and the main roundabout, is currently held by Syrian forces. The fighters of the Free Syrian Army, moderate opposition, are said to have abandoned the town and the people remaining in the area are mostly armed Islamists opposing the government troops.
Hundreds of militants of the Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria, are believed to be deployed to Al Sheikh Maskin to reinforce terrorist defense of the town.
Soon enough, the RT crew moving in convoy with the Syrian Army’s mop-up group, found itself in the very thick of it.
House by house, fighting rages on across Al Sheikh Maskin, as the Syrian military claims they have taken about 70 percent of the town under their control. Now it is mostly artillery and jets working to dislodge dug-in jihadists, in the southern end of Al Sheikh Maskin. But it is not all good news, as the Syrian soldiers expect an Islamist counterattack, perhaps as early as tonight.

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