ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists killed, more vehicles destroyed in army operations

Provinces – Army and Armed Forces units and the Syrian Air Force continued targeting ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terror organizations across the country, killing a number of terrorists and destroying their vehicles, SANA reported.

Homs

The Syrian Air Force destroyed a number of vehicles for ISIS terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs province.

A military source said that the Air Force carried out a series of sorties targeting gatherings of ISIS terrorists in the vicinity of the main station at al-Shaer oil field and near al-Muhr oil field as well as to the east of Palmyra city and Jazal village.

The terrorist suffered heavy losses in the air strikes, with their armored vehicles getting destroyed, some of them equipped with heavy machine guns.

Hama/Idleb

Army units, backed by the Air Force, targeted Jabhat al-Nusra positions in the villages of Um Hartein, Atshan and Skeik in Hama countryside and in al-Tamanaa in Idleb countryside, killing 30 terrorists and destroying five vehicles, two of which equipped with machineguns.

Daraa

An army unit destroyed on Wednesday 4 vehicles and a mortar launcher for Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups affiliated to it in Daraa al-Balad district in Daraa city, according to a military source.

The source said that, based on precise information, the army unit targeted gatherings and positions of terrorists from the so-called “Tawheed al-Janoub Brigade” and Jabhat al-Nusra in al-Arbaeen neighborhood in the district.

“Tawheed al- Janoub Brigade” is an armed group affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra that targets civilians in residential neighborhoods in Daraa.

A number of terrorists were killed in the operations, including Ahmad Quteifan, a field leader within “Tawheed al- Janoub Brigade”, the source confirmed, adding that a center for Jabhat al-Nusra, 3 vehicles equipped with machine guns, a tractor and a mortar launcher were destroyed.