Syrian Arab army restores stability to flour mills outside Damascus

PROVINCES,(ST)_Units of the armed forces have restored stability and security to two areas outside Damascus and Idlib provinces, as crackdown operations against foreign-backed terrorists continue in Aleppo, Homs and Daraa provinces.

In details, the armed forces restored today stability and security to flour mills (al-Matahen area) in al-Ghezlaneyeh district outside the country’s capital (Damascus) and to M’artam town outside Idlib after killing all terrorist groupings.

Weapons seized in Idlib

A military source told SANA that a big quantity of weapons and munitions was found inside the terrorists’ hideouts in the cleansed town (M’artam) and around 47 booby-traps weighing 300 kg/each –planted on the main road- were defused.

It added that an arms depot was pounded and a huge number of thugs including ringleaders –mostly  of foreign nationalities- was eliminated in town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, noting that several terrorist groupings were wiped out in Jabal al-Arba’en area in the same province.

Other thugs perished in qualitative operations in Der Salman town in the Eastern Ghouta and in Doma, al-Dyabeyeh, al-Qabon, Barzeh, and Jobar suburbs in Damascus countryside. 

Infiltration attempts foiled

Meanwhile, it was reported that the army units foiled terrorists’ bids to sneak into safe areas in al-Layramon, al-Nayrab, al-Sheikh Saed, and quarters of Karm al-Habl, Salah Eddin, al-Amereyeh and al-Aazameyeh in  northern Aleppo province and clashed with an armed terrorist group as it was trying to infiltrate into Kweris area.

An unknown number of terrorists was mowed down in the said areas.

In Daraa and Homs

The latter developments synchronized with repelling terrorists’ attacks on two garrisons in the areas of al-Hamrat and Ezeddin outside Hama province amid reports of crushing an unknown number of al-Nusra Front-linked terrorists outside  southern Daraa province.

More terrorists were eliminated in quarters of Bab Hod, al-Qarabis and Joret al-Shayyah in the central Homs city and in Talbeseh town  as the armed forces targeted their hideouts.

5 citizens martyred, 10 wounded in terrorist attacks

In a separate development, four terrorist attacks left five citizens martyred and 10 others wounded in three provinces.

The first occurred in Jaramana suburb outside Damascus when four mortar shells hit citizens’ houses in quarters of al-Rawda and al-Homsi and on al-Bassel Street.

At least a citizen was martyred and 9 others wounded in the attack which, according to an official source, caused extensive damages to houses and cars in the scene.

Another citizen was wounded in a separate terrorist attack when a shell landed on Aleppo Street in al-Abbaseyen area in Damascus.

As many as 10 cars were damaged at the scene.  

The third attack  happened on alMakhram-Maksar alHsan road in Homs countryside which claimed  two citizens when terrorists detonated an explosive device as a motorcycle was passing by.

Other two citizens were martyred in the northern Aleppo countryside- al-Sfera area- due to the detonation of an explosive device. This terrorist attack also left several citizens wounded.

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