End decades of fighting in Northern Nigeria. The result in syria where opposition activists have told aljazeera that rebels have now withdrawn from a key town in Southern Province recapturing is a significant victory for the syrian army and its ally russia the towns being in rebel hands is 2014. The rebels withdrawal follows days of fighting which told them firing rockets into government territory as syria and russian warplanes pounded the area with air strikes. Well another major developments were hearing that rebels have also retreated from the last pockets of land that they to hold in neighboring Hama Province this live now to our correspondent zain the holder. All these developments from beirut and say that its a very very complex picture than in this corner of syria tell us what we know. Well this is a major blow to the opposition they lost significant ground in just a matter of hours theyve withdrawn from a number of towns in the northern how much countryside among them. And they