Regime forces advance towards key town in northwest Syria

NEAR SARMADA, Syria: Regime fighters pushed further into a jihadist-run bastion in northwest Syria Wednesday , inching towards a key town following months of deadly bombardment, a monitor said.

"Regime forces are now 4km from Khan Sheikhun to the west, with nothing between them and it but fields," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. State news agency SANA on Wednesday said army troops had taken several villages from the jihadists and rebels in the area west of Khan Sheikhun. "We want to save ourselves," said Abu Ahmad, 55, behind the wheel on the road near the town of Sarmada.Sitting beside him, his wife Umm Ahmad said they had left almost everything behind.

Regime and Russian air strikes and shelling since late April have killed 820 civilians, according to the Observatory.Humanitarian workers have warned that any fully-blown ground attack on Idlib would cause one of the worst humanitarian disasters of Syria's war. But Idlib, nearby areas controlled by Turkey-backed rebels, and a large swathe of the northeast held by Kurds remain beyond its reach.

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