Syrian Arab army raids al-Nusra Front-affiliates near Ma’alola, launches tailored operation in Homs

PROVINCES,(ST)_Unprecedentedly, Ma’alola area, around 55km to the north of Damascus, has witnessed a fierce fighting lasted for long hours amid reports of launching accurate strikes at foreign-backed terrorists’ hideouts in Homs and Aleppo  provinces.

According to media reports, the fighting flared up yesterday between the armed forces and al-Nusra Front-affiliates after a suicide bomber exploded a car at a checkpoint in the entry of Ma’alola area where many personnel martyred.

Most of the al-Nusra Front-linked terrorists, who scrambled towards surrounding mountains and valleys, were crushed today when the armed forces targeted them by warplanes.

These developments came in sync with continuous operations in areas of Jobar, Erbin, al-Hseneyeh, al-Dyabeyeh, Hajjira, Darayya , al-Zabadani’s eastern mountains, and on al-Delbeh town outside the country’s capital [Damascus].

An unknown number of terrorists including ringleaders were eliminated in the said areas.

Qualitative operation in Homs

Further terrorists, who had fired rockets on citizens’ homes, were mowed down in a qualitative operation carried out by an army unit in Hosh Hajjo town in al-Saen area outside the central Homs province, according to an official source.

The source added that the armed forces inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in towns of Ein Hsen and al-Amereyeh and in quarters of al-Qarabis and Bab Hod in the same province (Homs).

29 thugs killed

The situation of terrorists operating in the northern Aleppo province was not better as the armed forces killed 20 of them at alMarjeh-Assan junction in the northern countryside and destroyed a large chunk of weapons.

On the other hand, the armed forces wiped out several hideouts and groupings of terrorists in 10 areas in Aleppo province and in 13 areas in Idlib province.

They also hammered 9 identified terrorists in the southern Daraa province – in Daraa al-Balad, Nawa, Da’el, eastern and western al-Mleha, according to SANA.

Al-Somareyeh explosion kills 4 citizens

In a separate incident, at least four citizens were martyred and six others wounded in an explosion of a car bomb near the Research Center which is affiliated  to the Ministry of industry in al-Somareyeh area in Damascus. 

Other three citizens were wounded when mortar shells- fired by terrorists- landed in the quarters of al-Tejara and Dwel’a in Damascus.

Terrorists open fire on a family

Another terrorist attack occurred in al-Meshrfeh town in Homs when an armed terrorist group opened fire on a family, killing the parents and seriously wounding two of their sons.

A third citizen was martyred when terrorists detonated an explosive device on al-Ma’qbara road in the same town which witnessed the fall of 6 rockets on citizens’ homes.

Several citizens were wounded by the rocket attack, an official source said.

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