Armed Forces Control New Areas in Damascus and Aleppo

Provinces, (ST)-The armed forces on Wednesday continued military operations in many areas across the country, eliminating  terrorists and  destroying their dens.

Units of the armed forces took full control of Hijjeira town in Damascus countryside after crushing  the terrorists’ last gatherings and destroying their weapons and ammunitions in the town, according to a military source.

A field commander told a local media that the operation lasted 6 days during which the army units discovered several tunnels which were used by terrorists for movement and conveying weapons.

He added that the army units arrested scores of terrorists affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra and the so-called “al-Islam Brigade”, in addition to dismantling several explosive devices planted by terrorists in the town’s streets and houses.

In Aleppo,the army unit achieved significant advance in tracking down the terrorists in the area surrounding the Umayyad mosque and the city’s old town in Aleppo’s old city and took control of parts of it after eliminating huge numbers of terrorists and destroying their criminal tools.

In Idleb countryside, the armed forces killed members of a terrorist group and injured others to the south-west of Sarakeb town. 

In Homs, a military source told a local media that all members of an armed terrorist group were perished as they were trying to infiltrate from al-Ghasbieh into al-Dwair village, in addition to eliminating another armed terrorist group while smuggling weapons and ammunitions from al-Rastan city to the terrorists in al-Hula in Homs countryside.

The source added that an army unit destroyed terrorists’ dens and gatherings in the villages of Mhin, al-Dar al-Kabira, al-Ghanto, al-Quneitrat and in the area between the villages of Izz-Eddin and Hameis, killing and injuring a number of terrorists.

In Hasaka,the army units killed a number of terrorists as they were trying to loot wheat silos in the area of Ghweran and destroyed many terrorists’ dens and gatherings in areas of the city and its countryside.

An army unit  killed 20 terrorists and destroyed 5 vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunitions and equipped with heavy machineguns in the areas of al-Bahharyeh, al-Qasayeb and Kharab Askar in al-Qamishli countryside, according to an official source.

A number of mortar shells, fired by terrorists, showered the provinces of Damascus, Homs  and Aleppo leaving many martyrs and causing material damages.   

In Damscus,Two citizens were martyred and 20 others were injured as mortar shells fired by terrorists on the residential areas of Bab Touma and al-Zablatani.

Nine citizens were martyred and others were injured as terrorists’ mortar shells hit the neighborhoods of al-Ghouta, al-Hamra and al-Inshaat in Homs city, while in Aleppo, 8 citizens were martyred and others injured by the terrorists’ rockets on al-Azizia neighborhood and Dawar al-Bolman  An armed terrorist group assassinated two women who were kidnapped last Friday by the group from Khneifes village in the countryside of al-Salamiyeh in Hama.

O. Al-Mohammad