The Army Establishes Control over Strategic Hill Overlooking Neighborhoods in Aleppo City

PROVINCES – The army continues to make advances in several provinces, driving out terrorist organizations from a number of areas, mostly in Aleppo.

Aleppo

An army unit in cooperation with the supporting forces carried out a “swift” military operation against terrorists’ positions and fortifications in the strategic al-Sheikh S’eed hill at the eastern parts of Aleppo city, establishing complete control over the hill and killing or injuring many of the terrorists, a military source announced on Friday, according to SANA.

 The source pointed out that this achievement will help the army units monitor terrorists’ movements accurately in the neighborhoods of al-Ameriyeh and al-Sukkariyeh, and consequently, the terrorists’ movement would be paralyzed and they would be forced to give up.

The remarkable advance comes hours after establishing firing control over Aleppo Hill to the southwest of al-Breij and establishing control over the Sport Institute, its housing compound and a school in Bustan al-Basha neighborhood and over the buildings and towers of the Electricity Company north of al-Sakhour roundabout on the northeastern outskirts of Aleppo city.

Idleb

The Syrian Air Force destroyed a training camp for terrorists, leaving tens of them dead or injured, to the east of al-Dana village in the countryside of Idleb province.

Later, the source said that Army and Armed Forces units destroyed a camp for Jabhat al-Nusra and eliminate the terrorists inside it in Ma’aret al-Nu’man in Idleb countryside.

Hama

The Syrian Air Force carried out airstrikes on gatherings and movements of terrorists from Jaish al-Fateh and ISIS in the countryside of Hama province.

A military source told SANA that the Syrian Air Force carried out intensive strikes on ISIS hideouts north of Aidoun village and in Tuloul al-Homr around 30 km east of Salamiya city, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying a number of assorted vehicles.

The source also said that airstrikes targeted Jaish al-Fateh terrorists in al-Zalaqiyat, Souran, Khafsin, Tlaisiye, Sekik, Atshan, al-Kbariye, and Ma’an, which resulted in killing many terrorists, most of them from Jabhat al-Nusra, and destroying bases, armored vehicles, and assorted vehicles, some of the equipped with machineguns.

Daraa

Army units destroyed Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists’ fortifications, monitoring centers and vehicles to the west of the old Customs building, in Wadi al-Zaidi, to the east of Khazan al-Kark, Dam Road neighborhood, to the east of Busra roundabout and to the east of Electricity Company in Daraa al-Balad area in Daraa province, killing many of the terrorists.

Homs

An army unit destroyed a booby-trapped vehicle for ISIS before it reached one of the military points in al-Barda area/ Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi in the eastern countryside of Homs, according to military source.

The source said that the Syrian Air force launched airstrikes on ISIS movement axes in the area surrounding Shaer Oil field to the northwest of Tadmour (Palmyra) city, destroying a number of tanks and armored vehicles and killing a number of terrorists.

The Syrian Air Force destroyed an ammunition cache for terrorist organizations in Talbeisa area and killed a number of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in al-Rastan and Deir Foul during intensive airstrikes on their gatherings and fortified positions.

A military source told SANA that the Syrian Air Force destroyed gatherings, bases, and vehicles for terrorists in Ruwaiset al-Qabe’a, al-Najia, and Kafr Sendo in Lattakia’s northern countryside.