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Links NATO’s Proxy Offensive Continues in Northern Syria Fighting continues in northern Syria – as NATO-backed Al Qaeda militants desecrate churches, displace local population, and impose "Sharia law." March 28, 2014 (Mimi Al Laham) – Fighting on the Syrian-Turkish border near the northwestern Syrian town of Kassab between AlQaeda insurgents Jabhat Al Nusra and the Syrian military continues for the fifth day. Insurgents are shelling the towns near Kassab in Latakia province while the military is returning fire on their positions. Point 45, a strategic hilltop overlooking Latakia’s countryside and Kassab, was regained by the Syrian army, initially lost to the mlitants flooding in from the Turkish side of the border.