The army men pushed Al-Nusra back from Zabawi and al-Zaferiyeh regions Northwest of the small town of al-Rabdah in Northeastern Hama, inching closer towards terrorists' positions in Southern Idlib.

A field sources reported on Sunday that the army troops fended off a heavy offensive of a group of terrorists in Southern Hama, adding that the country's Air Force hit the positions of the Al-Nusra Front in the Northeastern part of the province.

The sources said that the army men engaged in fierce clashes with terrorists of Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union deployed in the village of Aqrab and repelled their attack on government forces' positions in the village of al-Ta'ouneh in Southern Hama, inflicting major losses on the militants.

The sources went on to say that the army aircraft bombed heavily the strongholds and movements of Al-Nusra in the villages of al-Rahjan, Um Mayaleh and al-Shakasiyeh, killing a large number of terrorists and destroying their equipment in large scale.