One Journalist Assassinated, More Terrorists Killed

GOVERNORATES,(ST)_ A  number of  terrorist groups leaders in Sheikh Suleiman area  in Daret Ezza were exterminated by the armed forces on Thursday,  including Mahmoud Mohammed Ghanam and Alaa Abdul Rahman with full members of their groups, according to an official source.

Three cars loaded with weapons, ammunition and terrorists were destroyed at Tishreen  dam southeast Manbej , and other four cars loaded with weapons, ammunition and terrorists   were also destroyed on Izaz -Mare ` road .

Six vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition, manned by terrorists were destroyed in Handarat, Tel Rahal in rural Aleppo.

In Kafr Naha the armed forces attacked a gathering for terrorists and destroyed the headquarters of terrorist groups leaders in  Qubtan al-Jabal resulted in  killing eight terrorists and wounding nine others who belong to al-Qaeda affiliated  ” al-Nusra Front”.

 In the city of Aleppo, the armed forces killed or wounded scores of terrorists and destroyed their shelters and weapons- loaded cars, in  al-Neirab, Jibrain, Dawwar al-Helwaney, Saad Allah al-Jaberi  and al-Shaar areas.

Meantime, one terrorist group on Thursday assassinated journalist Bassel Tawfiq Youssef who worked for the Syrian TV in al-Tadamun quarter in Damascus

The journalist was born in 1971 and was a programmer in the Syrian Arab TV.

One old woman was wounded and huge material damage was caused in one apartment when terrorists on Thursday fired three mortar shelling in al-Mazze residential quarters  near al-Akram mosque, an official source reported to SANA.

The source added that one mortar shelling hit ” Abdul Rahman al-Safarjalani” basic education school   in Mazze  and only material losses were reported.

In a statement, upon inspecting the school, the minister of education Dr. Hazwan al-Wazz said that “these terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing the security of citizens to prevent them from sending their children to school,” stressing that “these criminal acts will not undermine the will of workers in the educational sector from performing their responsibilities to ensure the continuation of the educational process in all provinces.”

One civilian was seriously wounded when an explosive device  went off in a sedan car implanted by terrorists  in Barzeh residential area. Material losses were reported.

Several terrorists were killed when the armed forces attacked their hidings in the old quarters in Homs, including two Saudis: Atwan al-Anzi and Shaman Abdul Aziz al-Shummari and two Lebanese: Amer al-Khaled and Faraj  Maqdisi.

In Deir ezz Zour the armed forces exterminated several terrorists in the public road near Ziad hotel and  al-Jubeilah quarters including  Hussein al-Ali and a leader of one terrorist group called Abu Assad eddine.

Other killed terrorists were Muhammad al-Shibli and Abd Jasem al-Majoul  to the east of al-Rawda mosque, Bashar Antar al-Saleh and Ahmad Ragheb al-Jarad.

In Hassaka, terrorists destroyed a major communications cable center in the city when they attacked the center from two sides which led to the obstruction of 1800 telephone line.

In rural Hassaka, one terrorist was killed,   when a bomb he tried to implant went off  in a crowded area in al-Shaddadi town . 

Syria Times