Defense Minister Inspects Garrisons in Aleppo—Competent Authorities Seize Explosives-laden Car in Damascus

PROVINCES,(ST)_Competent authorities have confiscated a car loaded with explosives in Damascus province, as the army units wiped out terrorist groups and weapons in seven provinces.

The Syrian TV channel reported on Friday that the competent authorities, in cooperation with locals, seized a car loaded with explosives in a quarter in Damascus province, without defining the quarter.

It added that the engineering units defused the explosives while the competent authorities started investigation.

Shells hit Damascus

The same province [Damascus] witnessed two terrorist attacks when shells hit the surrounding of the Omayyad Mosque and al-Abbaseyen stadium.

A police command source told the official news agency that a shell, which was fired by a Takfiri terrorist group, landed on the northern side of the Omayyad Mosque wounding 9 citizens, 2 children and a woman. 

It added that other two shells hit the surrounding of al-Abbaseyen stadium causing material damages without casualties.

Accurate strikes 

The mortar attacks occurred as the army units pressed ahead with targeting terrorist groupings in Damascus countryside province where dozens of terrorists and several ringleaders died.

The terrorists were eliminated in accurate operations in Khan al-Sheih, Alya farms, Erbin town and in al-Qadam area and in clashes which raged in Darayya, Adra and Jobar areas.

Terrorists of Saudi and Tunisian nationalities were among the dead in Khan al-Sheih area, around 25km to the south-west of Damascus.

More Saudi terrorists belonging to the so-called the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ perished in Lattakia countryside when the army units targeted terrorist groupings in Rabe’a town.

Some 38 terrorists were killed there, according to a military source.

In  further developments, it was reported that the army units crushed armed terrorist groups in Homs province, precisely in the quarters of al-Qarabis and al-Waer and in towns of Salam Gharbi, Tal Ein Hussien, al-Dar al-Kabira and al-Zara, and in Daraa al-Balad in southern Daraa province.

Terrorist attacks thwarted

While on Homs-Palmyra road, the competent authorities foiled terrorists’ bid to detonate 4 booby-traps, weight 40kg/each, near Hannora town. 

Around 45km to the north-east of Homs province, the army units repelled terrorists’ infiltration bid into al-Arshoneh town outside al-Salameyeh of Hama province, according to a military source.

The sources added that the army units warded off an attack on a garrison on the road stretching from Soran to Morek to the north of Hama province.

Moreover, the army units eliminated an unknown number of terrorists in several areas in northern Aleppo province.

Defense Minister in Aleppo

Alikhbaria al-Soreyeh TV channel said that Defense Minister General Fahd Jassem al-Frej paid an inspection visit to several garrisons in Aleppo. It quoted the minister, who also occupies the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the army and the armed forces, as stressing that terrorist groups will be flushed out from Aleppo province soon.

Syria is fighting terrorism exported from around 83 countries.

The US, France, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and France sponsor terrorist groups operating in Syria, media reports say.

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