Syrian Arab army inches closer to control al-Qabon suburb, goes ahead with fighting terrorists

PROVINCES,(ST)_It has become preponderantly clear that units of the armed forces have scored remarkable progress in fighting foreign-backed terrorists across the country.

Today, an official source confirmed that the armed forces advanced in al-Qabon suburb, just 3 km north-east of Damascus, after eliminating many  terrorists and battering most of their hideouts.

It added that two terrorist ringleaders were killed and an arms dump was destroyed in the nearby Barzeh suburb outside the capital.

The source  told SANA about the army’s operations in the eastern Ghouta , and Harasa and Doma suburbs, saying : “Several al-Nusra Front-linked ringleaders and many gangsters were mowed down in farms of al-Khameseyeh town and in Doma and Harasta suburbs, while two machine guns were shelled on the outskirts  of Der Salman town in the eastern Ghouta.”

Terrorist attacks

 The army’s progress is followed by escalation of terrorist acts against citizens everyplace. It was reported today that two citizens wounded when a mortar shell landed near ‘Rashad Qsibati’ school in the Masaken Barzeh suburb (a residential area). The shell was fired by terrorist groups.

Another terrorist attack took place on Tal Derra-alRmeleh road in al-Salameyeh area in Hama province as an explosive device (planted by terrorists) detonated there claiming the lives of two citizens. 

This attack was preceded by liquidating the ringleader of the so-called “Ahrar al-sham’ brigade in al-Ghab area in Hama.

Dozens of thugs killed

The terrorist groups have sustained hefty losses in the northern Aleppo province as dozens of their members were eliminated in quarters of al-Rashidin, al-Ashrafeyeh, and al-Khaledeyeh as well as in several towns in the western Aleppo countryside.

As for the situation in  Aleppo central prison, it was reported that 5000 meals were catered by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

Elsewhere, the armed forces launched a qualitative operation at al-talleh square in Ma’arret al-No’aman in Idlib province which resulted in the death of unknown number of al-Nusra Front affiliates.

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