Syrian Arab army imposes control over mountains outside Damascus

PROVINCES,(ST)_Units of the armed forces have scored victories against foreign-backed terrorists around the capital and have gone ahead with carrying out operations in northern and southern provinces.

Today, units of the armed forces imposed full control over the western mountains adjacent to Halbon town in al-Tal area and regained security and stability to al-Bahdaleyeh town, south of al-Sayedeh Zainab area, outside Damascus.

This victory came after a series of successful operations carried out in the said areas during which an unknown number of terrorists were crushed.

Other terrorists from al-Nusra Front, including ringleaders, were reportedly eliminated when  units of the armed forces targeted their hideouts and arms caches in Der Salman farms (in the eastern Ghouta), al-Ghezlaneyeh, Erbin, Jobar and Harasta areas.

Concurrently, the armed forces foiled a bid of an armed terrorist group to sneak from the Lebanese territories  into Tal-Kalkh countryside in the central Homs province.

3 explosives-laden cars destroyed

 The armed forces also targeted terrorist groupings in al-Hole countryside and Josseh outside Homs amid reports of destroying two explosives-laden cars in Palmyra countryside.

A third car laden with 1.5 ton of explosives was also destroyed by the armed forces before reaching a garrison  in al-Ghab area outside Hama province.

A military source confirmed the death of the terrorist, who was driving the car. No casualties were reported

In  northern Aleppo province,  units of the armed forces pounded several hideouts of terrorists in the surroundings of Kweres airbase and in the quarters of al-Sakhor, Bestan alBasha and Sheikh Kheder.

Other hideouts were also obliterated in many areas in Idlib, Daraa and Lattakia provinces, while mopping up operations continued in several quarters in Daraa al-Balad.

Saudi, Kuwaiti, Jordanian, Libyan, and Egyptian terrorists were among the dead, who were inside the hideouts, in Idlib countryside.

Anti-tank mines confiscated in Daraa

On the other hand, a unit of the armed forces seized 34 anti-tank mines inside a hideout of the terrorists in the western Daraa countryside.

Lattakia explosion

As for the explosion which took place inside one of the  military engineering units in al-Bassah area (in Lattakia), an official source made it clear that it was due to a technical fault  which left 6 people wounded.

in a separate development, a quarrel broke out between two terrorist groups over sharing loots in Der Ezzour city which resulted in the death of dozens of terrorists.

Terrorist arson a church

The same province saw a terrorist attack targeted al-Wehde church as terrorists affiliate to al-Nusra Front set it ablaze leaving a scene of devastation .

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