ISIS loses dozens of vehicles and members in continued army operations

Provinces – Military operations across the country continued on Tuesday, with the army units targeting terrorist organizations’ positions and dens, destroying their vehicles and equipment and leaving many of their members dead or wounded, SANA reported.

Homs

The Syrian army’s air force destroyed Tuesday scores of ISIS vehicles and positions in the countryside of Homs province, a military source said.

The source affirmed that airstrikes on ISIS gatherings in Palmyra countryside left more than 20 vehicles destroyed, some of them were equipped with machine guns, at the eastern side of the Third Station.

A number of ISIS terrorists were killed and their vehicles and positions were destroyed in airstrikes in al-Basiri, al-Sawaneh al-Sharqiyeh, Khneifes and Ark areas, some 31 Km northeast of Palmyra.

The Air Force, also, destroyed vehicles, positions and movement axes of ISIS terrorists at the eastern side of al-Qaryatain city.

More positions and fortified sites of ISIS terrorists were hit by the Air Force in Onq al-Hawa, al-Shindakhiyeh, Um al-Reesh and Um Shreej in the vicinity of Jebb al-Jarrah town, some 73 km east of Homs.

In the northern part of Homs, the Air Force destroyed positions of the so-called “Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement” and killed a number of its members in the vicinity of Deir Foul village in Talbiseh town, some 13 km away from the city of Homs.

Deir Ezzor/Raqqa

In the same context, the Air Force inflicted heavy losses within the ranks of ISIS terrorist organization in strikes against their gatherings and movement routes in the eastern Deir Ezzor and Raqqa provinces.

Air strikes on ISIS gatherings and routes of movement to the north of al-Jafra village, in al-Bogheiliyeh village and in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor Airport resulted in the death of a number of terrorists and destroying their vehicles equipped with machineguns, according to the military source.

In the neighboring Raqqa province, the Air Force conducted a raid against ISIS terrorists’ fortified sites at al-Tabqa Airport, some 55 km south west of Raqqa city, leaving a heavy machinegun-equipped vehicle destroyed and a number of ISIS terrorists dead or injured.

Sweida

An army unit carried out intensive operation against ISIS gatherings in Tal Ashihib

al-Shamali and Thalfaa in the northeast countryside of Sweida, according to military

source.

The source added that many terrorists were killed and others were injured as their weapons, ammunition, a vehicle equipped with a cannon and a mortar launchers were destroyed during the operation.