Army brings more areas under control

PROVINCES, (ST)- Units of the army on Friday  stepped up operations resulted in controlling of three towns in Homs and Tel Hassel in Aleppo and will continue hunting down foreign-backed terrorists nationwide.

The three freed areas  of Homs are:Mheen,Hawarin and al-Hadath.

Meanwhile, an army unit destroyed a car and a den for leaders of terrorist groups and killed 15 terrorists in Eidoun village in al-Saan area.

Other army units killed and wounded a number of terrorists in the village of ad-Dweir in ad-Dar al-Kabira, north of al-Mahmoud mosque, south of reservoirs, the land of Sheikh Ibrahim in al-Rastan and Khaleej Kissin.

In Idleb,an army unit carried out a special operation against an armed terrorist group in Saraqeb city, killing all of its members, according to a military source.

An official  source said that units of the armed forces killed and wounded numbers of terrorists and destroyed their weapons in the city of Maaret al-Numan and the villages of Ma’shamsheh and al-Za’laneh.

“the army units killed a number of terrorists in the youth housing compound, Bani Zeid, the vicinity of the central prison and al-Kindi hospital, Tel Shoihna, Kafr Da’el, and al-Rashedeen 4, Bab al-Nassr in old Aleppo, Anjarah, Orm al-Kubra, journalists’ society, al-Mansoura and Arbid village,”a military source told the official news agency.

The source added  that other units destroyed vehicles and cars with all terrorists inside east of Deir Hafer, Karm al-Mayser, Karm al-Trad, Rasm Mayaleh, Bisha and al-Bakat in the southern rural area. 

In another development, several mortar rounds ,fired by terrorists, hit the residential area of Bab Touma in Damascus, causing material damage to al-Mansour School and the Chaldean, Latin and Syriac churches and two houses, according to a source at the Police Command.

M.D