Syrian Arab Army Wards Off Attack on Saidnaya Cherubim, Shells Terrorist Groupings in Aleppo and Der Ezzour

PROVINCES,(ST)_An intense fighting has raged on the outskirts of Saidnaya city outside Damascus, while qualitative operations have been conducted in Aleppo and Der Ezzour provinces.

The Syrian TV Channel reported on Sunday that an army unit clashed with an armed terrorist group trying to attack Cherubim monastery in MarretSaidnaya, around 27km to the north of Damascus.

Many of the terrorist group’s members were eliminated in the clash during an operation which targeted their hideouts to the west of Saidnaya city.

Another clash flared up between an army unit and an armed terrorist group in Harasta area outside Damascus where 2 terrorists died amid reports of mowing down 3 others in a qualitative operation in Duma area in the same province [Damascus countryside].

Other 5 terrorists were killed and 20 others wounded when the army units shelled terrorists’ hideout at the entry of Jeroud area in the northeastern countryside of Damascus.

Hideouts pounded

Meanwhile, it was said that the army units struck terrorist groupings in 7 towns in the eastern and northwestern countryside of Aleppo province and thwarted infiltration attempts into Aleppo central prison and a garrison in Salaheddin quarter in the city of Aleppo.

The army units also obliterated several terrorists’ hideouts in quarters of al-Salhin and al-Jazmati and at alHelaneyeh square and destroyed a number of weapons-loaded cars in Bani Zaid quarter.

 More hideouts were targeted in the southern al-Qusair countryside outside Homs province and in the towns of al-Bolil and al-Mayadin city in Der Ezzour province.

The death toll in the operations was not reported but it was said that many terrorists were killed.

Terrorist attacks

In another development, the army units foiled terrorists’ bid to burglarize a wheat silo in al-Tawarij town outside al-Qameshli province. 

While in southern Daraa province, the armed terrorist groups opened fire on workers at the Syrian Telecommunication Company’s Daraa branch, leaving two workers wounded.

A source at the company clarified that the terrorist groups had opened fire on the workers for the third time in three days in order to prevent the workers from carrying out their duties.

“Whatever the cost may be, the workers in the company insist on carrying out their duties” the source said.  

Syria is facing a terrorism targeting the national army, citizens and the country’s infrastructure.  Terrorism is exported from 83 countries.

The US, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey support the terrorist groups operating in Syria by all means, media reports confirm.

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