Syrian Arab army scores strategic success in al-Qusayr countryside

PROVINCES,(ST)_For the second day in succession, units of armed forces have continued to score success in al-Qusayr battle and target al-Nusra Front-affiliated terrorists’ hideouts outside Lattakia province.

Today, towns of Arjon, al-Brak and al-Jawadeyeh outside al-Qusayr have become under the Syrian Arab army’s control after cleansing them from foreign-backed terrorists.

This advance comes a day after cleansing al-Dab’a airbase in the same area from terrorists.

An official source declared that the units of armed forces have pounded all terrorists’ hideouts in Arjon town and dismantled tens of explosive devices in it, noting that a vehicle loaded with ammunitions and stolen medical items has been confiscated when the army ambushed a terrorist group trying to flee from al-Qusayr city through Shamsin village near Damascus-Homs road.

All members of the terrorist group were eliminated, according to the source.

“In fact, a number of terrorist groups have fled to the al-Jawadeyeh town’s farms abandoning their weapons and ammunitions,” an official source said, adding that a unit of armed forces carried out a qualitative operation in al-Rastan area during which an arms cache and a hideout were destroyed.

Other hideouts of terrorists were reportedly pounded in Hajjera and Bet Sahm areas and west Harasta city in Damascus countryside amid report of clashes broke out near Kfer al-Zait town in Wadi Barada area and Jobar suburb.  

12 terrorists killed outside Lattakia

Meanwhile, as many as 12 terrorists from al-Nusra Front were eliminated as the units of armed forces targeted terrorist groupings in the northern countryside of Lattakia, according to a military source.

4 citizens martyred in separate terrorist attacks

In a separate incident, four citizens were martyred in terrorist attacks outside Damascus and Daraa provinces.

The first attack occurred when terrorists fired a mortar shell on a residential area in Daheyer Harasta area outside the capital, leaving a citizen martyred and serious damages at the scene.

While the second one happened today morning on Bosra al-Sham road (in Daraa countryside) when two explosive devices detonates at the passing of a private car carrying five members of a same family.

The blast claimed lives of two citizens (the car’s driver and a woman) and left four others wounded.

The third terrorist attack targeted a member of the General Sport Federation’s Der Ezzour branch, Shahnaz Abdulwahhab.

A terrorist group shot her dead near Harsta area outside Damascus as she was returning from Damascus to Der Ezzour.

Syria is facing a foreign-backed war that aims to weaken the Syrian Arab army and destroy national economy to serve Israel’s interests in the region.

The US, France, Britain, Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia fund and support the terrorist groups, who perpetrate heinous crimes against citizen and destroy Syria’s infrastructure.

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