Army eliminates terrorists, destroys monitoring position and explosives manufacturing den for them

Provinces – An army unit, in cooperation with popular defense groups, eliminated Thursday an ISIS terrorist group, mostly foreigners, who attacked a military post at the triangle of al- Rassafe in the western countryside of Raqqa province.

A military source said that an army unit clashed with a group of ISIS terrorists attacked a military post at the triangle of al-Rassafe, killing and injuring a number of terrorists, SANA reported.

On Wednesday, Syrian Army Air Force destroyed vehicles for ISIS to the north side of Zakia crossroads and the south side of al-Tabqa city in the countryside of Raqqa province.

Syrian army in cooperation with popular defense groups, backed by Syrian and Russian air forces, began on 2 June a wide military operation on Athriya-Khanaser- al-Tabqa axis that resulted so far to establish control over Zakia-Deir Haffer crossroads, Abu al-Zain mountains, al-Masbah area, Abu al-Alaaj village, power and oil pumping

plants, two oil fields, Harbiyat and Anbaj villages and al-Safeeh triangle at Habari field.

Daraa

The army units targeted monitoring and reconnaissance position for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization east of al-Khuder Hill, 7  km east of Daraa city , a military source said.

The army’s operation resulted in destroying the position completely with all arms and ammunition it contains and killing a number of terrorists.

In al-Nuaimeh area , east of Daraa city, another army unit destroyed a den used by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists for manufacturing the explosive devices to target the safe neighboring areas.