Army kills al-Nusra terrorists in Daraa and Homs, thwarts ISIS attack in Deir Ezzor

Daraa, Deir Ezzor – Army units carried out operations against fortifications and movements of Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups affiliated to it in Daraa al-Balad area in the southern province of Daraa, according to military source.

The source added that a number of terrorists were killed due to the operations in addition to the destruction of 2 machinegun nests and a number of their vehicles, SANA reported.

Deir Ezzor

The army units clashed with ISIS terrorist groups on the southern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, thwarting their attack on a military post in the surrounding of the graveyards area.

The military source said that the army units thwarted the attack using various types of light and medium machineguns, killing 5 ISIS terrorists, injuring others and destroying their arms and ammunition.

Homs

An army unit destroyed a meeting location for leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra in Deir Fuul village in the northern countryside of Homs province, killing 4 terrorists and injuring 17, a military source said, adding that one of the dead terrorists was a Jordanian nicknamed “Abu Thu’l-Nourain.”

The source went on to say that an army unit killed and injured a number of terrorists affiliated to al-Nusra and destroyed their weapons and ammo after targeting their gatherings in al-Za’afarana and al-Farhaniya al-Gharbiya in the province’s northern countryside.

Meanwhile in the eastern countryside, army units eliminated large numbers of terrorists from ISIS near the abandoned battalion, east of al-Qaryatain, southeast of Palmyra, Habra al-Gharbiya, and Unq al-Hawa.