Syrian Arab army tightens grip on terrorists outside Damascus, destroys weapons in 13 areas
PROVINCES,(ST)_Day by day, units of the armed forces clamp down on foreign-backed terrorists and inflict big losses on them in all flashpoint areas across the country.
Since the beginning of this month, remarkable victories have been recorded outside Damascus, Hama, Homs, and Idlib provinces as the armed forces restored security and stability to around 22 areas and made progress on several axis points.
Each progress helps to cut off supply lines to terrorists and paves the ground for further advances on all axis points.
Hi-tech devices seized
On Wednesday, the armed forces seized rifles, snipers, hi-tech devices, medicines, and passports inside a hideout of terrorists near the education TV channel’s headquarter in Barzeh suburb, just few kilometers away from Damascus, according to an official source.
They also eliminated an unknown number of terrorists, including ringleaders, in the suburbs of al-Qabon, Harasta, Doma, Erbin, Yabroud, and to the west of Daraya and in al-Bahhareyeh farms in the heart of eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside.
On the other hand, the official news agency (SANA) reported that the armed forces destroyed an arms depot and Anti-Aircraft Guns (AAG) as well as heavy machine guns in the surrounding farms of Shebaa town. The town was declared safe on Sep.16.2013.
Detonation attempts
The agency added that a terrorists’ bid to detonate four explosive devices weighing 4kg/each near the external wall of police hospital in Harasta suburb was thwarted.
Another attempt to blast two explosive devices on the old road linking Damascus to Daraa province was foiled too.
In another development, the armed forces wiped out a grouping of al-Nusra Front-affiliates in Kafr Nabbodeh town in al-Ghab area outside Hama province where different types of weapons were destroyed.
More weapons and munitions belonging to terrorists were destroyed in 7 areas in northern Aleppo province and in 4 areas in southern Daraa province.
28 identified terrorists killed in Daraa
A military source announced names of 13 terrorists killed in operations launched outside Daraa.
It added that the armed forces warded off terrorists’ attacks on checkpoints in seven towns- Kherbet Ghazaleh, Da’el, Tafas, alHarra, Inkhel, alSheikh Sa’ed, and Tsil- in Daraa countryside, declaring names of 6 terrorists who died in the clashes.
Other three terrorists died by a detonation of a booby-trap as they were trying to plant it in the heart of al-Sheikh Meskin town outside Daraa amid reports of a quarrel between terrorist groups in towns of Nahita and eastern Mleha.
As many as 6 terrorists perished in the quarrel.
Other terrorists were hammered last night in al-Erfi quarter in Der Ezzour province when an army unit obliterated an arms dump near “Borhaneddin Haji” School, according to a military source.
The source pointed out that another army unit eliminated armed terrorist groups in al-Mre’a town outside the same province (Der Ezzour).
Rocket hits Aleppo city
In a separate development, the Syrian TV channel said that terrorists fired a rocket at Baron Street in Aleppo city killing at least four citizens.
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