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capture of Kafr Dulbeh and Katf Al-Ghaddar had brought the Syrian Armed Forces forces to the gates of Salma. On 12 January 2016, the Syrian army with allies recaptured the town of Salma and the nearby village of
Tirtyah. Rebels said the town was subjected to intense Russian airstrikes and that most remaining residents had fled towards the
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On 9 November 2015, it was reported that for over a month the Syrian Armed Forces had conducted several small military operations inside the
Latakia Governorate in order to prepare for a much larger battle that was expected to take place in the rebel stronghold of Salma. By the end of November, the
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villages. It was on the front line of fighting in
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takeover of Syria in the 1960s, Salma was one of the few places in the coastal mountain region to be electrified and connected to a grid.
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controlled the town, whose population has mostly left (part to
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1036:Al-Haffah
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790:Sitmarkho
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261:al-Haffah
230:romanized
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617:Capital:
548:(2006).
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253:Mashqita
225:سَلْمَىٰ
143:District
29:سَلْمَىٰ
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910:al-Budi
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795:Sqoubin
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714:Kirsana
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322:Latakia
269:Slinfah
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