Syrian army wards off attacks on military posts, kills large numbers of terrorists

PROVINCES,(ST)_Syrian army has repelled terrorist organizations’ attacks on military posts in and outside Daraa city and has killed large numbers of al-Nusra Front and ISIS terrorists in Aleppo and in the countrysides of Homs, Damascus, Sweida,  Aleppo, Hama and Idlib.

A military source declared today that army units killed 7 al-Nusra Front terrorists and destroyed 3 vehicles belonging to them in al-Yadodeh town in the southwestern countryside of Daraa.

 It added that large numbers of al-Nusra Front terrorists, including two ringleaders, were eliminated in Nasib town, near the Jordanian border from which mercenaries infiltrate into Syria.   

More terrorists were killed when army units targeted terrorist organizations in al-Naemeh town and on Athman-Tafas road and in Daraa al-Balad, the source said, confirming that army units destroyed several arms depots in Ibta’a town in the northern countryside of Daraa.

150 terrorists killed

According to the Beirut-based al-Mayadeen TV channel, over 150 terrorists were killed and 200 others wounded in the first day of the so-called the ‘storm of south’ operation in Daraa.

The terrorist organizations tried to infiltrate into the city of Daraa from 5 axes : Tafas-Athman, Yadodeh-Athman, Air Intelligence, Daraa camp and national Hospital.

They also tried to make progress towards al-Mansheyeh quarter, but army units foiled all the infiltration attempts.

Moreover,  army units thwarted terrorist organizations’ attack on army posts in Tal al-Za’atar in Daraa countryside and struck al-Nusra Front hideouts in Khan al-Shieh farms in Damascus countryside and in towns of al-Saraya, al-Helweh, Biet Ibliq and al-Rawda in the northern countryside of Lattakia.

Many terrorists were killed and injured in the strikes which synchronized with intensified airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the eastern countryside of Hama and in the eastern countryside of Homs, the official news agency (SANA) reported.

Al-Nusra Front hideouts in the southeastern countryside of Idlib were bombed by Syrian warplanes, according to a military source.  

Syrian warplanes, in addition, hit ISIS and al-Nusra Front terrorists in quarters of al-Layramon, al-Ansari and Jeb al-Qebbeh in Aleppo city and in the western and southwestern countryside of Aleppo.

Basma Qaddour