Syrian Arab army takes control of 5 towns in three provinces
PROVINCES,(ST)-Five areas outside Damascus, Aleppo and Hama provinces have now come back under the Syrian Arab army’s control after cleansing them of foreign-backed terrorists amid reports of confiscating weapons and ammunitions in Banyas city.
Today, it was declared that the armed forces imposed control over al-Ahmadeyeh town in the Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus province, and Ein Assan town and al-Tineh Hill in southern Aleppo countryside as well as towns of Rasm al-Abd, Rasm al-Awabed and Aqerbat in Hama countryside.
This advance coincided with eliminating several terrorist ringleaders and their men in many areas in the said provinces.
Other terrorists, including non-Syrian ones, were reportedly crushed in al-Rastan city and quarters of Bab Hod, al-Qarabis, and al-Khaledeyeh in the central Homs province.
At the same time, the armed forces have continued operations against terrorist groupings in many areas in southern Daraa province and northern Idlib province, inflicting heavy losses upon them.
10 terrorists arrested
These operations occurred as competent authorities confiscated weapons and ammunitions in an agricultural land inside Banyas city (in Tartous province) and arrested an armed terrorist group that was trying to flee to the Lebanese territories.
“Locals of al-Hamedeyeh town near the Lebanese border cooperated with the authorities in arresting the terrorist group that consisted of a ringleader and 9 of his gang,” an official source said.
In another incident, a terrorist group assassinated Head of Peasant Federation in Der Ezzour province, Sharida al-Ali, by shooting him dead as he was going to his work.
Since March 2011, Syria has been experiencing unrest as a result of a foreign-hatched conspiracy in which internal and external tools are being used to weaken the Syrian Arab army and national economy in service of Israel’s interests in the region.
The US, France, Britain, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia support the armed terrorist groups, who perpetrate heinous crimes against Syrian citizens.
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