GOVERNORATES,(ST)- Photographer Haidar al-Smoudi was assassinated by an armed terrorist group in front of his home in Kafer Souseh quarters in Damascus.
al-Smoudi born in Damascus in 1967 worked as a journalist photographer in al-thawra Daily and in 1998 moved to Syrian TV as a Photographer.
Meantime, several terrorists were killed or wounded when one armed forces unit chased terrorists in the city and confiscated their weapons. Among the killed terrorists were Muhammad al-Sayyad, Ahmad Shbeib and Faraj al-Homsi.
In Douma farms the armed forces eliminated several terrorists who were committing acts of sabotage and destruction, including Anas al-Baghdadi, Anas al-Masri, Osama Taama, Zuheir Hamzeh and Abdullah Abu Zeinah.
In Homs countryside, the engineering unit dismantled a 80-Kg explosive implanted on Shanshar- al-Qseir road.
In a qualitative operation the armed forces on Friday destroyed a factory used by terrorists to manufacture improvised explosive devices , three barrels filled with gunpowder , three thermal rockets , one mortar and weapons store in al- Ram square of Taldo town in Hula region of Homs countryside .
“The operation resulted in killing and wounding of scores of terrorists”, SANA reported.
In Aleppo, clashes were erupted between two terrorist groups in al- Marjah quarters in Aleppo over disagreements on the sharing of thefts and the money looted from homes and shops of citizens.
The clashes resulted in killing terrorists : ” Ahmad Hameed Ninjar, Turkey Ezzo al-Turkey, Fares and Malik Hantoush, Abdo al-Abdo al-Shagjel, Karmo Jamal al-Ashqar, Muhammad Makhlout, faisal Sinjar, Abdul Karim Omar al-Taqqal, Shehadah Muhammad Shehadah, Hassan and Hussein Targhouth, Hamdo and Hassan Sharbak and Khaled Hussein al-Taqqal.
The armed forces on Friday continued qualitative operations against terrorists headquarters and gatherings in Aleppo and its countryside, leaving scores of them killed or wounded destroying their weapons , on Aleppo-Damascus highway near Zeido gas station , near the glass factory, in al-Tamoura area , Hayyan Village , in al-Zaryeh and al-Ahram gas station, SANA reported.
Other terrorists were also killed or wounded when the armed forces clashed with their groups in Kafr Daal at Bashqatin junction in al-Sfeira and near the cables and batteries factor.
The armed forces also targeted terrorist groups in Arbid region village and destroyed two headquarters for leaders of al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front and four cars loaded with ammunition and weapons.
In the city of Aleppo the armed forces targeted terrorists shelters in al-Naqqarin, Bustan al-Qaser area near Huzeifa mosque, Abdul Rahman al-Dakhel school and near the research center housing , where scores of terrorists were eliminated and their weapons destroyed..
Heavy losses were also inflicted in the ranks of terrorists when the armed forces attacked terrorists concentrations in old Aleppo near Karam Houmad and al-Othmaneyah mosques, Sheikh Lutfi road and near Allirmoun mosque.
In Damascus countryside, the armed forces continued chasing terrorist groups that commit acts of murder and sabotage in Darya and Douma farms and killed and wounded many of them after the destruction of their shelters and criminal elements. Among the eliminated terrorists were Abu Khaled al-Mezzawi, leader of more than one terrorist group and two other terrorists : Hadi Mahmoud and Jamal Taqtaq.
In a qualitative operation, the armed forces killed in Douma farms, terrorists Muhammad al-Homsi, Nazir al-Hafez, Jihad Abdul Malik, Rida Khaleifa, Muhammad Eyas and exx eddine Leila , Maher Abbas and Ali al-Derzeh.
Another army unit chased terrorist groups in al-Deyabeyah and al-Hujjeira towns , where scores of terrorists were killed and their three cars fitted with two Dushka machine guns and a van carrying terrorists and transporting their weapons and ammunition were destroyed.
Meantime, scores of terrorists including Mohammed Khaled Ibrahim Hussein, Mohammed Mousa and Sqqar al-Duleimi and Ahmed Hamida and Mousa al- Fawaz were killed when the armed forces clashes with them in al-Taman’a town, in al-Ghab province in Hama, according to an official source.
The source added that the army units destroyed terrorists concentrations in al-Ghasaneyahmal-Aleyah town in rural Jesr al-Shoughour , in Bennish, Taftanaz and Taftanaz, where heavy material and human losses were inflicted on the ranks of terrorists.
Syria Times.