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Provinces, SANA- The Syrian Air Force carried out concentrated sorties against positions of ISIS terrorists in a number of villages and towns in the southern countryside of Raqqa province.
A military source told SANA that a number of the ISIS vehicles and positions were destroyed in sorties carried out in al-Bawlieh Mountain, Ma’adan, al-Khmaisieh, al-Jaber, and al-Numaisa to the south of Raqqa City.
Hama
The Syrian Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the ISIS terrorists in airstrikes against their gatherings in the Salamiyeh eastern countryside of Hama central province.
The Army Air Force carried out airstrikes against gatherings and fortifications of the ISIS terrorists in al-Khashabiyieh, al-Fasda, Abu Hubailat, Jana al-Albawi, al-Dukailieh al-Shamalyia, and Salba in the eastern countryside.
Command centers and armored vehicles belonging to the ISIS terrorists were destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed in the airstrikes.
Homs
Army units regained control over Manoukh village in the eastern countryside of Homs province after eliminating the last gatherings of ISIS terrorists in it.
A military source said that army units, supported by the Syrian Air Force, carried out intensive operations against ISIS gatherings and fortifications on the southeastern outskirts of Jub al-Jarrah area, resulting in the restoration of Manoukh village, 15 km to the northeast of Jbab Hamad and the destruction of number of terrorists’ vehicles.
The source added that the army’s engineering units are currently dismantling the IEDs and landmines that were planted by terrorists to block the advance of the army before the killing of most of them, while the rest of them fled away.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Air Force destroyed positions and vehicles belonging to ISIS terrorists in a number of villages and towns in Homs Countryside.
Earlier, the source said that the Air Force destroyed positions, vehicles and cars belonging to ISIS in the village of Hmeimeh in the farthest eastern countryside of Homs near the administrative border of Deir Ezzor.
The army’s airstrikes on the axes of Hmeimeh, 70 km to the west of al-Bukamal city in Deir Ezzor, come in the framework of a military offensive launched by the army units in cooperation with the allied forces about two months ago from the north-east of al-Tanf, during which the army managed to liberate large areas and pressure ISIS terrorists, leaving them in of chaos and panic for several weeks as the army approached the city of al-Bukamal, with dozens of ISIS leaders escaping, while many ISIS members getting killed as a result of infighting among their groups.
The airstrikes also targeted ISIS gatherings and positions in Um Sahrij, to the east of al-Tiba and Tweinan.
Deir Ezzor
Warplanes of the Syrian Air Force carried out strikes on gatherings and fortifications of ISIS terrorists in the areas of Sariet Jneid, al-Jafra, the surroundings if the Maqaber (cemeteries) area, and Alloush hill at the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, destroying terrorists’ positions and vehicles and killing many of them.
A military source told SANA’s reporter that army units clashed with ISIS terrorists in the cemeteries area and the surrounding of Regiment 137, the Airport, and al-Bogheilia, killing many terrorists including Mohammad Rakan al-Hassan.
Local sources told SANA that a number of terrorists including “Abu Mohammad al-Khurasani,” who was in charge of recruiting and training terrorists in Deir Ezzor, have fled.
The sources also said that the terrorist organization executed three people in al-Hussain village in the northern part of Deir Ezzor and they also stitched shut the mouths of three young men with wires in al-Salehiya village under the pretext that they were talking about the military losses of the terrorist organization.
