Syrian Arab army pounds bomb-making factories outside capital
PROVINCES,(ST)_Units of the armed forces advanced outside Idlib province while several bomb-making factories, mortars and machine guns are reportedly obliterated in the countryside of Damascus, Lattakia and Daraa provinces.
According to the Syrian TV channel, units of the armed forces today imposed control over two towns- al-Hamedeyeh and Em Jrin- outside Idlib province after cleansing them of al-Nusra Front-affiliated terrorists.
This advance coincided with pounding several bomb-making factories, mortars and machine guns outside Damascus, Lattakia, Daraa and Idlib provinces.
Some 3 bomb-making factories and mortars were pounded in the industrial area in Doma suburb outside the capital amid reports of eliminating dozens of terrorists in al-Mliha, Doma, Adra al-Balad, Barzeh, and Darayya areas in the same province.
At the same time, units of the armed forces destroyed an arms cache and many hideouts of terrorists in several towns outside Lattakia, Daraa and Idlib.
Most of the terrorists killed in the said provinces were foreigners, according to a military source.
On the other hand, units of the armed forces dismantled several explosive devices planted in Kafr Shamsin, and on Samlin-Jasem route outside southern Daraa province.
infiltration bid foiled
In addition, the armed forces repelled last night an attempt of the terrorist groups to infiltrate from Lebanon into Syria through Tal Kalkh area in Homs countryside.
An official source in the province (Homs) stated that units of the armed forces targeted today terrorist groupings outside al-Hole and in al-Rastan amid reports of foiling the terrorists’ bid to detonate two explosive devices on alTayfor-Palmyra road.
US-Israeli weapons seized
Meanwhile, the competent authorities confiscated Israeli and US made weapons and ammunitions plus remittance notes from the Gulf region and
foreign states in al-Midan quarter in Banyas city.
“Three terrorists were nabbed in tunnels found in the same city,” an official source said, noting that 10 tunnels containing field hospital were found there.
Terrorist attacks
In another development, at least 4 citizens have been wounded in two terrorist attacks in al-Qameshli and Damascus provinces.
At dawn today, terrorists detonated an explosive device planted near ‘al-Qadeseyeh’ school in a al-Wehdeh quarter in al-Qameshli city leaving three citizens wounded and damages at the scene.
“The wounded were admitted to the national hospital in the city,” an official source said.
However, the second terrorist attack targeted the deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts at Damascus University, Dr. Seham al-Danon,who is now in a critical condition.
“A few minutes after getting into her car, the terrorists blasted an explosive device pasted to her car in al-Shaghour area in Damascus,” a source at the Police Command said.
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