GOVERNORATES,(ST)_ Army units on Saturday inflected heavy losses on the ranks of the armed terrorist groups in a series of operations carried out in Daraya, Duma, Irbin, Zamalka and al-Zeyabeh in rural Damascus. Terrorists Tareq Mahmoud, Youssef Matar, Abdul Rahman Qazzah, Muhammad Hasanin, Naem al-Sheikh and Muhammad al-Zein were killed at the municipal council and al-Ridwan hospital during confrontations with the armed forces in Daraya.
In a qualitative operation, the armed forces eliminated or wounded several terrorists including Abdul Jalil Khallouf, Abdullah al-Azzawi, Omar al-Takli, Mustafa Qaddoura, Ahmad al-Qidr, Youssef al-Asadi, Nader Kishkeh, Munib Kahalleh, Sadeq Abu Baker, Bilal Abu Iskandar, Muhammad Oweish, Fadel Qaseiri, Nawaf al-Refai and Murtada Saad in Zamalka and al-Bahdaleyah towns where several terrorists shelters were destroyed including one car fitted with one anti-aircraft 23 caliber heavy machine gun.
In Yabrud , scores of terrorists who were attacking people and destroying their property were killed or wounded by the armed forces and their weapons and communications equipment were confiscated, including automatic RPG launchers, assault rifles, several explosives of various weights and sophisticated communications equipment, according to an official source.
The source added that terrorists Ghassan Muhammad al-Awad and Abdul Wahhab Fakher eddine were killed in a qualitative operation during which their four-propelled car was destroyed in the city of Yabrudm whereas all terrorists concentrations were destroyed in Housh Arab, al-Saleheyeh and at Abdul Ghani and Abdul Aaal hills
In Aleppo, scores of terrorists were killed or wounded in Rasm al-Abboud, Mangh, al-Neirab and Mare’ areas where terrorists Ahmad Alaa Nime and Ahmad Nesaani were killed whereas terrorists Zaher Shirqat nicknamed as Abu Alaa, leader of the so called Abu Baker battalion and Kamal al-Najjar were seriously wounded, while 6 cars manned by terrorists were destroyed on the old route to al-Baab city.
Also destroyed were a number of vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns, a laboratory for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices in Tel Shgheib to the southern east of Aleppo, three cars fitted with ammunition and weapons on Khan Toman road in Aleppo countryside, whereas in the city of Aleppo the armed forces targeted terrorists concentrations in al-Mesraneyeh, al-Jazmati, Qadi Askar, al-Mayser, Allirouin, al-Salhi and al-Kastillo areas, where large number of terrorists were killed.
In another context, several terrorists were killed or wounded when a fighting erupted between two terrorist groups over sharing stolen property , collected from robbing civilians in al-Hader area in rural Aleppo. Terrorist Muhammad al-Asaad was killed during the fight.
In rural Idleb, leader of ” the North Shield” terrorist group Yasser al-Hammoud was killed and others including Abdul Jalil Ahmad Hayan, Imad Basheer Abu al-Ij, Muhammad Abdul Rahim Tirkawi and Abdul Malik Fares Hasyan on Idleb- Semin road, and their four cars fitted with heavy machine guns were destroyed.
Meantime, the engineering units dismantled 9 explosives weighing between 50-75 explosive implanted by terrorists on the road linking al-Ghandoria and Jesr al-Shoughour.
In a qualitative operation, the armed forces exterminated several terrorists in Bennish town, SANA said, adding that other members of al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra front were eliminated on Idleb- Sermin road.
On the other hand, a 50-Kg explosive device implanted by terrorists near the ” Seeds multiplication establishment” in Idleb was dismantled .
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