Syrian Army establishes control over more areas in Aleppo and Quneitra

Provinces – The army and armed forces on Saturday established control over more area in Syria, killing large number of terrorists and destroying their criminal weapons, SANA reported.

Aleppo

Units of the army and the armed forces, in cooperation with the popular defense  groups, established full control over al-Jabboul village in the eastern countryside of the northern  Aleppo province.

A unit of the army eliminated the last hotbeds of the ISIS  terrorists in al-Jabboul village in the eastern countryside of the province.

 Establishing control over the village came after fierce clashes with the the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists as heavy losses were inflicted upon them in the personnel and the equipment.

The forces defending the Air Force Academy also destroyed a den of the ISIS terrorists and killed  all terrorists inside it, and destroyed their arms, ammunition and equipment in the surroundings of  the Academy at the international road leading to Raqqa province.

A number of dens and hotbeds of Jabhat al-Nusra and the ISIS terrorists were also destroyed in the  surroundings of al-Nayrab Airport, Sharba’a and Rasm al-Ghazal in the continued operations carried  out by the army in the southern and eastern countryside of the province.

Heavy losses were inflicted upon Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in operations carried out by the army  against their hotbeds in the neighborhoods of Bani Zaid, Old Aleppo, al-Ramousa and al-Rashidin 4.

Meanwhile, the Takfiri terrorist organizations acknowledged on their pages on the social networking  websites that a number of their members were killed including the self-claimed leader of the so-  called “Thwar al-Sham Brigade” terrorist Mohammad al-Khatib, and the so-called “Director of the  Local Council in Tal Hdaiyya village” terrorist Fadil Olaiwi and the self-claimed “commander in the  battalion 1 in Hraitan city” terrorist Omar Shamta.

Quneitra

Full control was established over Dahret al-Kassar site in the northern countryside of the southern Quneitra province.

A unit of the army, backed by the popular defense groups, established full control over Dahret al-Kassar to the east of Tranja village after carrying out intensive operations against positions of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists as heavy losses were inflicted upon them in the personnel and the equipment and their remnants fled and left their arms and ammunition.

Units of the army, in cooperation with the popular defense groups in Harfa, Hadar and Khan Arnaba, carried out special operations against dens and positions of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the forests of Tranja, Jibbat al-Khashab and Ain al-Bida.

Positions and hotbeds of the terrorist organizations were destroyed in the operations.

Meanwhile, the Takfiri terrorist organizations acknowledged on their pages on the social networking websites that a number of their members were killed in the operations.

Damascus Countryside

Syrian Arab Army units made new advances in their ongoing military operations against terrorists in the villages of Nola, Bala, and Marj al-Sultan in Damascus Countryside.

The army broke through the terrorists’ defenses and destroyed many of their hideouts and fortified sites along with the weapons and ammo they contained.

An army unit destroyed a bulldozer and a car loaded with ammo that were used by terrorists in the farms of Bazina village, eliminating terrorists Mohammad al-Odat from Jordan, Ahmad al-Hindawi from Iraq, Mohammad Dalati, Mahmoud al-Shawwa, and Tassin al-Arouni.

Another army unit destroyed 3 cars used by terrorists from “Jaish al-Islam” in an operation near Barakat mosque in Harasta, which resulted in the death of terrorists Abdelrahman Za’al al-Mazazia from Jordan, Naji al-Yatim, Mahmoud al-Morestani, and Nawwaf al-Hasan.

Army operations also targeted terrorists’ hotbeds southeast of the Agricultural Research department in Douma city, killing terrorists Khaldoun al-Sawwas, Younes Awad, Fadi Ekra, Nihad al-Tayyed, Adnan Mahrous, and Ghassan Oyoun, while 30 more terrorists were either killed or injured after the army targeted their hideouts in Karm al-Rasas farms between Douma and Harasta.

In Masraba village south of Douma, an army unit targeted hideouts of Jaish al-Islam, killing terrorists Abdelhadi Ghannoum, Mansour Hatem, Fares Ghannoum, and Mahmoud Sweidan, in addition to destroying several vehicles, some of which were equipped with machineguns.

Earlier, an army unit targeted a hideout for terrorists in Daraya in Damascus Countryside, killing at least 7 terrorists and injuring others, mostly from the so-called “Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union”.

The terrorists Moaz al-Moadamani, Jamil al-Moadamani, Raed Hijazi, Abdul-Rahman Hammoud, Fayez Sharara and Mohammad Hinnawi were identified among the dead.

Hama/Idleb

The army’s air force launched a series of air strikes against dens and positions of terrorists from the so-called “Jaish al-Fateh” in Hama and Idleb provinces.

Gatherings of terrorists and vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed in al-Tamanaa town and Khan Sheikhoun city in the southern countryside of Idleb.

Three leaders within Jabhat al-Nusra, who are Abu al-Zubair al-Shami, Abu Dujana al-Ansari and Abu al-Nasr al-Jazrawi, were confirmed dead, according to the terrorist organizations’ social media pages.

In the northern countryside of Hama, dens and vehicles for terrorists were destroyed in the army airstrikes in the surroundings of Maarkaba village.

Lattakia

110 terrorists were killed or injured during the army’s operations against Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups in the northern countryside of the coastal Lattakia province.

The army’s air force intensified its sorties against terrorist positions during the past 24 hours, destroying supply routes and weapons and ammunition depots in Salam area and the villages of Bshirfeh, Tirtiah, Ekko and al-Mgheiriyeh.

Meanwhile, 53 terrorists were killed and 57 others were injured, most of those are foreigners, in various areas in Lattakia northern countryside.

The sources cited the names of some of the terrorists killed, including Kamal Sammo, who was leader of the so-called “Zou al-Nourain Battalion”, and Amer Omar, Khaled Omar, Mudtafa Sallo and Mohammad Khaled, who were all leaders within Jabhat al-Nusra.

Daraa

Terrorists suffered heavy losses in personnel and ammunition after army units had launched strikes against Jabhat al-Nusra positions and gatherings in Daraa al-Balad and Daraa al-Mahatta.

An army unit bombarded a gathering for terrorist organizations in the area surrounding the power station in the northeastern countryside of Daraa, killing and wounding all the terrorists who were gathered there.

Later on, a vehicle for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists was destroyed after the army hit their gathering in the area surrounding Makass al-Hajar in Daraa northwestern countryside, with several terrorists getting killed in the operation.

Meanwhile, terrorist groups acknowledged the death of 14 of their members in Daraa.

Homs

An army unit clashed with a terrorist group that had snuck from the direction of al-Sa’an al-Aswad village in Homs province’s northern countryside towards a military point in al-Mashrafa village.

The clash left all members of the terrorist group either dead or injured.

Another unit targeted terrorists’ hideouts near Jawalak village, in Oum Sharshouh, al-Wa’ra, and al-Hilalia west of the town of Talbiseh, which inflicted losses in personnel, equipment, and vehicles upon the terrorists.