Wildfires expand in Syria’s Latakia as 10,000 hectares of forests burned – Middle East Monitor

Wildfires continue to expand in northwestern Syria after burning 10,000 hectares of forest, officials said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

New fire hotspots broke out in Qastal Maaf town in the countryside of Latakia, the state news agency SANA said, citing Civil Defense Director Abdul Kafi Kayyal.

Kayyal said that operations are ongoing to extinguish the flames.

“Hundreds of thousands of forest trees across an area estimated at about 10,000 hectares in 28…