The Army establishes control over strategic hills in Lattakia

Provinces – The army is advancing further in the northern countryside of Lattakia while its army units have stepped up operations in other areas, killing more terrorists and destroying their heavy weaponry, SANA reported.

Lattakia

Army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over hills 652, 687.5, 526, 662.8, and 427 in Lattakia northern countryside, inflicting losses in personnel and equipment on terrorists in these areas.

 Earlier, Army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over Hill 754.5, Syriatel Tower, Jabal al-Aswad al-Kabir and Atira village in the northern countryside of the coastal province.

Other Army units also established control over the strategic al-Sayyed Mountain in the northern countryside of Lattakia province.

Terrorists positioned in the area were fired at intensively, with many of them getting killed and the rest escaped.

During combing operations in the mountain, the army units dismantled many explosive devices and mines planted by terrorists and found at its foot a 50 m tunnel equipped with lighting that contained vehicles and equipment used by the terrorists to dig trenches and tunnels to hinder the army’s advance in the region.

The new achievement came one day after the army established control over the strategic al-Noubeh Mountain in Lattakia northern countryside.

Daraa

An army unit carried out an operation against a center for terrorists in al-Badou quarter in al-Manshiyeh neighborhood in Daraa al-Balad area in Daraa city.

Three vehicles with heavy machine guns mounted on them were destroyed in the operation and 18 terrorists were killed, including the leader of the so-called “Jabhat Thouwar Souria” who is named Rida Muhannad al-Masalmeh.

Another army unit targeted Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in al-Nazihin Camp in Daraa al-Balad, destroying a hideout with weapons, ammunition and terrorists inside.

A vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun was also destroyed in Daraa al-Mahatta.

Army units continued targeting terrorists’ movements on the border between Daraa and Sweida, killing all members of a terrorist group moving on the road between Busra al-Sham city in Daraa and Barad village in the southwestern countryside of Sweida.

Homs

An Army and Armed Forces unit directed concentrated strikes at hideouts and hotbeds of ISIS terrorists in al-Zakah valley, al-Musk valley, north of the quarries, and south of Palmyra Citadel in the eastern countryside of Homs province.

The strikes resulted in destroying machinegun-equipped vehicles, weapons, and military equipment used by the terrorist organization.

In the province’s northern countryside, the army destroyed bases and fortified sites for Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations in al-Najma hill and Teirmaala village in Talbiseh area 13km north of Homs city