Syrian Arab Army Seizes Arms Depot, Eliminates Terrorist Ringleaders

PROVINCES,(ST)_The foreign-backed terrorists have lost a large chunk of weapons  in today’s operations which also resulted in killing dozens of them outside Damascus and Idleb provinces and in Aleppo and Homs provinces, according to the official news agency.

The agency quoted a military source as citing that the army units confiscated on Tuesday an arms depot containing a big quantity of weapons and ammunitions in the eastern side of Darayya area in the western Ghouta of Damascus province.

“The seized weapons included 60mm mortar shells, heavy machineguns, rifles, booby-traps, various types of munitions, gallons of acid for making bombs and explosives,” the source said.

The confiscation of weaponry synchronized with shelling terrorist groupings in Duma, Jobar, Adra, Harasta, Darayya, Khan al-Sheih, al-Mansheyeh, Drosha, al-Hseneyeh, al-Kesweh areas in Damascus countryside.

An unknown number of terrorists was eliminated in the said areas and in the western quarter in al-Zabadani city and at the entry of Jeroud town as well as in Al-Mselha area in al-Rhebeh town.

More terrorists were reportedly killed and wounded when the army units targeted hideouts and groupings of terrorists in towns of al-Zara, al-Hesn, al-Barghoteyeh, Salam Gharbi, Salam Sharqi,al-Shendakheyh, Em al-Resh, Mes’ada, Rhom and a-Ghasebeyeh and in southern al-Qusier countryside in central Homs province.

Field hospitals in Arsal

A military source declared that the army units targeted a hideout of terrorist ringleaders in Joret al-Shayyah in Homs city, killing and wounding many of them.

The wounded ringleaders were admitted to field hospitals in the Lebanese Arsal village, the source said.

In addition, the army units wiped out many weapons-laden cars in Jabal al-Sha’er area, around 89km to the north-west of Palmyra, and in several areas in Aleppo countryside as well as outside Idleb province. Scores of terrorists perished in the said areas.

Non-Syrian terrorists

Six terrorists of Turkish, Chechen, Iraqi and Egyptian nationalities were among the dead outside Idleb province, a military source confirmed.

The US, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar sponsor the terrorist groups operating in Syria.

Syria in facing terrorism exported from around 83 countries, media reports say.

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