GOVERNORATES,(ST)_ During chasing operations ,the armed forces on Friday inflected heavy losses on the ranks of terrorists groups.
In Deir al-Zour , several members of one terrorist group were killed including Ismael al-Alloush leader of the so called ” al-Furqan Brigade”, and terrorists Muhammad Sabbar al-Khaleifa of the so-called “Ibn Taymiyyah battalion,” and Najm Shweikh in al-Bu-Saraya street.
In a qualitative operation, the armed forces destroyed an armed al-Qaeda camp to the east of Tayyip Fal and eight cars in al-Tanak quarters . All terrorists in the two places were killed or wounded. Among the killed were Imad Abdul Wahab al-Matar, Ayoub Abdul Haseeb al-Ayoub and Muhammad al-Hamid.
In Homs, a number of tunnels which were used by the terrorists in smuggling of arms and ammunition were found by the armed forces in Deir Baalbe, where quantities of machine guns , automatic military rifles and a pickup mounted with heavy machine base were confiscated ,while a number of improvised explosive devices weighing between 15 and 50 kilograms planted by terrorists in residential areas were dismantled.
In Homs countryside, the armed forces destroyed terrorists gatherings in Diwaniyah ,Hijo and Agha areas , in al-Ghanto town, and al-Sultaneyah and exterminated scores of terrorists there.
In Aleppo and its countryside terrorists shelters were destroyed near the Department of Agriculture, the educational complex and al- Jalaghim in al-Sfeira, where a large number of terrorists were killed and their weapons confiscated in al-Naqqarin, al-Tirkawi area, and the golden city, in Bustan al-Qasr area and near Abdul Rahman al-Dakhel school.
In Damascus countryside, members of several terrorist groups were left dead or wounded during confrontations with the armed forces in Duma, Harasta, Daraya, Hujeira and al-Zeyabeyah towns , including terrorists Ahmad Bitar, Muhammad Suleiman and Saeed Juma
In the context of targeting of national cadres, one armed terrorist group attacked an electricity workshop members and assassinated Khaled Kallouh , a worker in the electricity establishment of the ministry of electricity and wounded many others near Beit Sohom to the south of the city of Damascus , a source in the ministry reported, adding that the said workshop had recently carried out repair and maintenance works in al-Fursan electricity transfer station in al-Madameyah.
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