PROVINCES,(ST)_A smuggling tunnel has been destroyed in Der Ezzour province amid reports of repelling attacks on Aleppo locals and Saidnaya city outside Damascus and targeting weapons-laden cars in Homs province.
In details, units of the armed forces battered on Monday a 22m long tunnel which had been used by terrorists to store weapons and shuttle from one place to another, in al-Orafi quarter in Der Ezzour province.
They also clashed with armed terrorist groups belonging to al-Nusra Front in al-Rashedeyeh and al-Sena’a quarters where 7 terrorists were mowed down, according to the official news agency.
The agency added that an army unit crushed an armed terrorist group near ‘al-Taim’ oil field and obliterated a hideout for terrorists from ‘Ahrar al-Sham’ movement in al-Je’a town.
More hideouts were pounded in the quarters of al-Qarabis, Joret al-Shayyah and al-Quosor in central Homs province. An unknown number of terrorists were killed and injured in the said quarters and in southern al-Qusair countryside.
Arms-laden cars targeted
While in al-Waer quarter in the same province [Homs], the army units eliminated several ringleaders and destroyed a weapons-loaded car for terrorists there, according to a military source.
Other arms-laden cars were also targeted in Kherbet Berghlan and Kherbet Beit al-Agha areas outside Homs.
Around 190km to the north of Homs, precisely in Aleppo province, it was reported that scores of terrorists perished while trying to infiltrate into quarters of al-Sayyed and al-Hamedeyeh to attack the locals there.
More terrorists were exterminated in many flashpoint quarters in Bani Zaid area and in al-Sheikh Najjar area and in the nearby areas in Aleppo province and in the areas of Adra, Jobar, Harasta, Darayya, Yaboud, al-Zabadani, Madaya, Khan al-Sheih, Rankos outside Damascus province.
For the second day running, the armed terrorist groups tried to attack Cherubim monastery in Marret Saidnaia, around 27km to the north of the capital [Damascus], but the army units foiled the attack killing and injuring many of terrorists.
Shells hit Daraa and Saidnaia
In separate developments, the terrorists fired mortar shells on quarters of al—Matar and al-Sabil in southern Daraa province and on Saidnaya city outside Damascus province.
At least a child was wounded in the mortar attack on Daraa province. Attack caused material damage at the scene, according to a police command source.
However, the shells hit courtyards of al-Saydeh Monastery and Moneb Zaher School in Saidnaya city causing material damages. No casualties reported.
The US, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey sponsor the terrorist groups operating in Syria, media reports confirm.
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