Army establishes and reasserts control over two villages and strategic hill

Hama

Army units established control over Atshan and Tal Skeik villages in the northern countryside of Hama, after al-Bahsa village came in their hands yesterday.

The army personnel swept the two villages for explosives, dismantling scores of explosive devices that terrorists planted prior to their retreat, SANA reported.

Qunietra

Field sources said that an army unit backed by popular defense groups reasserted full control over Tal al-Qaba hill in Qunietra countryside after eliminating the last gatherings of terrorists in the area.

The sources said that the army unit carried out a series of concentrated operations targeting the gatherings of terrorists that had infiltrated earlier the strategic hill near the town of Arnabeh, and that the operations resulted in establishing full control over the hill after eliminating many terrorists, including one leader in the Liwa al-Furqan terrorist group, while the surviving terrorists fled towards Jebata al-Khhashab, SANA added.

The military source said that the terrorist organizations received heavy losses in personnel and equipment in an army unit’s military operation in Nabaa al-Sakher village in the southeastern countryside of the province.

The terrorist organizations also acknowledged on their social media websites the killing of scores of terrorists, among them Ibrahim Mohammad al-Ghazali, Mohammad Abdullah al-Dnaifat, Omar Joudeh al-Ghothani, Abdel Hamid al-Naser, Ahmad Muwafaq al-Nasser, Mohammad Yaser al-Naser, Diyaa Mohammad Saleh Eqbal, Ra’fat Abdel-Aziz al-Saleh of the so-called “Jund al-Malahem”.