Army targets terrorists across the country, establishes control over new areas

Provinces – The Syrian army, aided by the Syrian air force, continued establishing control over new areas across the country after targeting the terrorist organizations’ positions and hotbeds in many areas, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment, SANA reported.

Aleppo

The Syrian army air force targeted ISIS positions and movements in the villages and towns of  Afash, Deir Qaq, Aisheh, al-Hader and al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province.

The army airstrikes inflicted heavy losses upon ISIS terrorists in personnel and equipment, destroying their vehicles, some equipped with machineguns.

 The army units bombarded ISIS positions and vehicles to the north Talet al-Sawaya and the village of Tal al- Hatabat in the eastern countryside of the province, destroying them with all terrorists, weapons and ammunition inside and on board.

In Aleppo city, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations’ hotbeds and positions were destroyed after the army targeted their gatherings in the neighborhoods of Karm al-Tarab, al-Sheikh Lutfi, Salah Eddin, al-Rashidin4 and Bani Zaid in the city of Aleppo.

Meanwhile, terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages the killing of a number of their members, among them the so-called “military commander of Thewar al-Sham battalions” terrorist Ibrahim Mohammad Adnan and terrorist Abdel-Qader Ahmad Abdel-Jalil.

Hama

Units of army, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over Ghreemish, Zor al-Sous,al-Ziyadiyeh and al-Sheikh Abdullah town in the south western and south eastern countryside of Hama.

Earlier, the army units established control over towns and villages of Zur Sariheen, al-Maktout, Jenan, al-Sarmya, Ra’aboun, al-Makhrez and al-Muradiya in the eastern countryside of Hama province.

Army units combed these villages and towns and dismantled the explosive devices, which terrorists had planted earlier in the area, after killing many of terrorists and forcing the others to flee.

Meanwhile, the Syrian army air force targeted ISIS gatherings and hideouts in Tulul al-Humr and Qatisha in al-Salamyeh countryside, killing scores of terrorists and destroying a number of vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns.

Earlier, Takfiri terrorist organizations received heavy losses, in personnel and equipment, by the Syrian air force strikes against their dens in Kafar Zita, Morek, and el-Lattamenh in the countryside of Hama province.

An army unit carried out special operation to the east of Kafr Zita, destroying a training camp belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra, killing number of terrorists and injuring many others.

SANA also confirmed the killing of the terrorist Omar al-Khatib the “leader” of the camp and the terrorist Abad al-Latif Mohamed al-Tinari, 15 other terrorists were killed and 4 vehicles were destroyed.

Army units directed strikes against terrorists’ gathering in the area surrounding Abdin village, killing at least 5 terrorists and injuring many others

Homs

A unit of the army killed 15 terrorists in Tir Ma’ala in Homs northern countryside.

Earlier, the Syrian Air Force launched airstrikes against ISIS’ gatherings and fortified positions in al-Qaryatin and Marmalit al-Qaryatin to the southeast of Homs city, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.

In the northern countryside of Homs, army’s airstrikes destroyed gatherings and machinegun-equipped vehicles belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra in Tir Maala and Ayn Hussein al-Janobi villages.

Damascus Countryside

Army units destroyed positions for terrorists from the so-called al-Rahman brigade in addition to mortar launch-pad and fuel warehouse in an operation in Eastern Ghouta, killing a number of terrorists and injuring others.

Positions for terrorists from the so-called al-Rahman brigade were destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed in an accurate strike by a unit of army against their dens in Zamalka town.

Another unit of army killed a Yemeni terrorist and two other terrorist group leaders in Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in strikes against their dens in Ain Tarma town.

Army strikes also targeted positions of the so-called Jaish al-Islam in Douma farms and the surroundings, destroying mortar launch-pad,fuel warehouse and vehicles in addition to killing a number of terrorists and injuring others.

Army units advanced in Marj al-Sultan area in Eastern Ghouta and established control over a number of farms towards al-Nashabiyeh town and Harasta al-Qantara, destroying two vehicles, one of equipped with heavy machine gun.

Engineering units dismantled explosive devices which were planted earlier on roads and farms by terrorists before their defeat and withdrawal from the area.

A number of Jaish al-Islam terrorists were killed, including the Saudi Mustafa Hamoud al-Shumari in addition to other terrorists.

Earlier, the Syrian army air force destroyed the so-called Jaish al-Islam positions and vehicles with all weapons and ammunition inside them, killing all terrorists on board in the city of Douma, in the countryside of Damascus.

Deir Ezzor

The Syrian army air force conducted sorties over Takfiri terrorists’ gatherings and movements in al-Merie’ya in the countryside of Deir Ezzor provinces.

The army raids destroyed positions, dens and vehicles of ISIS terrorists.

Quneitra

An army unit, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, established Thursday control over al-Samadaniyeh al-Gharbiyeh village in the countryside of the southern Quneitra province, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorist organizations in personnel and equipment after eliminating their last gatherings there.

Earlier, the army unit in cooperation with the popular defense groups targeted Jabhat al-Nusra and other Takfiri terrorist organizations’ positions and fortifications in the village, killing and injuring a number of their members, while others fled away.

Daraa

An army unit carried out accurate operations against the gatherings of the so called “Deraa al-Islam” in al-Bajaja, al-Bado and al-Jumruk al-Qadim in Daraa al-Balad areas in the southern province of Daraa.

Terrorists’ gatherings were destroyed during the operations and a number of their vehicles, some of them equipped with heavy machine guns, were destroyed.

Terrorist organizations acknowledged on their pages on social media sites the death of 13 terrorists.