<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Eleven Syrian military personnel were killed, and 20 others were injured on Saturday in a rebel attack in the country's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The attackers carried out an assault and detonated explosive devices concealed in tunnels beneath Syrian army positions in the southern countryside of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The observatory said the attackers are from factions including the Ansar al-Tawhid group and the Turkestan Islamic Movement, both affiliates of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tension has been brewing between the HTS and the Syrian army, with both sides exchanging fire in northern Syria.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A day earlier, seven HTS members were killed by the army forces in the western countryside of Aleppo in northern Syria, according to the observatory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Monday, Syrian forces intercepted and shot down three weaponized drones dispatched by the HTS in the northwestern provinces of Idlib and Hama, according to the state news agency SANA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the same day, Russian airstrikes conducted in the Idlib region killed eight HTS militants, according to the observatory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">HTS, previously known as the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, has established control over a large swathe of Idlib. XINHUA</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>