PROVINCES,(ST)_Syrian army has targeted ISIS hideouts in the northeastern countryside of Sweida and has killed key Jordanian ISIS ringleader in Homs countryside.
According to a military source, army units and popular defense groups carried out today operations against ISIS terrorists on the outskirts of Sa’ada town in the northeastern countryside of Sweida where many terrorists were eliminated.
The operations came a day after terrorists exploded 2 car bombs in Sweida city, killing at least 26 persons and wounding scores more.
Two days ago, an army unit destroyed 2 cars equipped with heavy machine guns plus armored car belonging to ISIS terrorists in al-Qaser and Rajm al-Dawleh towns in the northeastern countryside of Sweida.
Moving towards the central region, social media said that one of the top ISIS ringleader of Jordanian origin , dubbed Abo al-Qa’aqa’a, was killed in an air strikes against ISIS sites in al-Qaryaten city in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Abo al-Qa’aqa’a left the Jordanian territories 3 years ago and he was the ‘Emir of al-Qaryaten in Damascus principality’.
As for Zabadani battle north-west of Damascus, the official news agency (SANA) said yesterday that army units and the Lebanese resistance recaptured most parts of al-Nabo’a quarter in the northeastern edge of the city.
“Army units and the Lebanese resistance arrived to the outskirts of the ‘al-Rahmeh’ Mosque’ in al-Nabo’a quarter and defused a network of mines and explosive devices planed by terrorists before they were driven out of the area,” a military source declared.
Basma Qaddour