BEIRUT: ISIS and Nusra Front militants holed up in Syria’s Qalamoun area on the border with Lebanon do not exceed 3,000 and are too weak to wage a large-scale assault on the country, a report said Tuesday.

“The efforts of the terrorists are currently focused on surviving (winter) storms and snow, a matter that essentially requires securing access to supplies,” daily newspaper Al-Joumhouria cited “foreign intelligence reports” as saying.