The Syrian Army prevented al-Nusra fighters from infiltrating two besieged towns in the Aleppo Province populated by the Shiites.
The military and forces loyal to the government managed to clear the area around Nabal and al-Zahra and blow up an underground tunnel the extremists from the al-Qaeda-affiliated group planned to use to get to al-Zahra.
The army killed an unspecified number of terrorists from one of the key radical groups fighting to topple Syria's President Bashar Assad, according to the Fars news agency.
