Syrian Arab Army Defeat Terrorists From Surrounding of Oil Field in Der Ezzour, foil Bid to Smuggle Weapons From Jordan

PROVINCES,(ST)_Units of the armed forces have imposed control over the surrounding of the ‘al-Taim’ oil field in Der Ezzour province and thwarted a bid to enter a weapons-laden truck from Jordan.

The surrounding of the al-Taim oil field became on Saturday under the control of the army units in the wake of a fierce clash with terrorists there, according to the official news agency.

A military source declared that the army units eliminated the remaining terrorist groupings there and destroyed their weapons, adding that dozens of terrorists were killed when the army units wiped out hideouts and two cars equipped with heavy machineguns in the orchards of al-Mri’eyeh town in the same province [Der Ezzour].

Ambush

Meantime, it was said that the competent authorities destroyed a weapons-loaded truck coming from Jordan to terrorists inside Syria.

The truck was destroyed in an ambush at the border Jleghem checkpoint, around 180km to the south-east of Palmyra.

Operations in Homs, Daraa, Aleppo

Towards the west of Palmyra, precisely in central Homs province, several terrorist groupings were eliminated in towns of al-Dar al-Kabera, al-Khaledeyeh, al-Sa’en aqnd Ein Hussien and in areas of Souq al-Hashish and Joret al-Shayyah in the city.

More terrorist groupings were reportedly crushed in an unrelenting operations in several restive areas outside Damascus province and in Aleppo and Daraa provinces.

There were also clashes between the army units and the armed terrorist groups that tried to attack garrisons in towns of Shaqra and Izra’a in southern Daraa province.

Elsewhere, the army units obliterated a hideout for terrorists in Kafr Zeta outside Hama province, killing and injuring all the terrorists inside. 

Syria is fighting terrorism exported from around 83 countries.

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

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