Provinces, SANA, The army and armed forces continued targeting terrorists and their dens and gatherings killing and injuring their mercenaries and destroying their vehicles and thwart their infiltration attempts to safe areas.
Damascus Countryside
An Army unit destroyed a den belonging to the so-called Ahrar al-Sham terrorist organizaiton in Jisrin town in Damascus countryside.
The operation resulted in the death of the Lebanese terrorist Ziad Hussein Ze’iter along with Hozan Jammo, Bahaa Ed-Din al-Haji and Nizar al-Dibbes.
During an Army operation in Htaitet al-Jarash farms, the terrorists Abu al-Ezz al-Etouni, Walid Nasri and Ziad Ghamam were identified among the dead.
In Erbin town, the Army targeted a terrorists’ hideout, killing and injuring all the terrorists inside.
Another Army unit eliminated a terrorist group near al-Ansar mosque inside Douma city.
In the southern part of Eastern Ghouta, an Army unit chased terrorist groups in the farms of Zibdin and Deir al-Assafir villages, killing many of their members.
Fayez Zaidan, Fadi al-Zabadani, Arif Ghaboura, Mohamed al-Hamadi, Khaled Khaddouj, Anas Sharaf Ed-Din and Zakaria Nu’man were identified among the dead.
In the northern mountains of Qalamoun, Army units destroyed terrorists’ fortifications near Mousa crossing point and in the towns of al-Mesherfeh and Ras al-Ma’arra.
Army units frustrated a terrorists’ attempt to infiltrate to the area surrounding Khan al-Shih, killing many of their members and injuring others in addition to eliminating a number of terrorists in the southern part of Ayn al-Bustan village north of Sa’sa town in Damascus’ southwestern countryside.
Hama
The army Air Force targeted groups of gatherings in al-Hamidiyeh, Qastoun, al-Hawash and al-Huweija in the northwestern countryside of Hama, destroying a number of vehicles with terrorists on board, a military source told SANA.
Army Aircrafts also targeted a convoy of terrorists’ vehicles on the axis of Qlaydin-al-Inkawi in Hama northwestern countryside , destroying six of the vehicles and leaving all terrorists onboard dead.
Army units tightened noose on terrorist groups in the towns of al-Mansoura and al-Qahera in the northwestern, killing all of their members.
Meanwhile, an Army unit chased terrorists on al-Mansoura- al-Qahira axis in the northwestern countryside of Hama, killing a number of them and injuring many others.
Hasaka
Authorities in Hasaka province seized on Sunday amounts of weapons and ammunitions, some of which are Turkish-made, in Gweiran neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Hasaka city.
The weapons include three automatic rifles, a Turkish-made rifle, an explosive belt and amounts of ammunition and grenades, a source at the province told SANA.
Army units eliminated in mid-September the last gatherings of terrorist organizations in Gweiran neighborhood.
Homs
The army killed terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a special operation against one of their dens in Rahoum village in the eastern countryside of Homs province, according to a military source.
Units of the army eliminated several groups of terrorists in the villages of al-Madarja al-Sharqiyeh and al-Msheirfeh al-Janoubiyeh and in the hills surrounding Masaada village.
A machinegun-equipped armored vehicle was destroyed in Talet Um al-Rish, 80 km to the east of Homs city,leaving all terrorists onboard dead.
More terrorists, most of them from Jabhat al-Nusra, were killed and others were injured during a special operation against their gatherings in the village of Shmeis al-Hayyat in Hassia area in the southwestern countryside of Homs near the Lebanese borders.
Other units eliminated a number of terrorists and injured others in precision strikes targeting their hideouts in al-Sultaniye and Abu Hawadit villages in Homs’ eastern countryside.
Aleppo
Units of the army and armed forces directly hit terrorist hideouts in the villages of Ramleh, Um Khan, Murabbaa al-Kabir, Murabbaa al-Salloum and Burj Sinah in southeastern Aleppo.
Dozens of terrorists were killed in the operations and their equipment was destroyed, according to the military source.
Other army units targeted, in a special operation, terrorist positions on the road between Khanaser village in Aleppo southern countryside and Abu al-Duhour town in the northeastern countryside of the neighboring Idleb province. A number of the terrorists’ vehicles with machine guns mounted on them were destroyed there.
To the west of al-Nairab airport, the army operations resulted in killing or injuring a number of terrorists and the destruction of several vehicles.
In Aleppo northern countryside, which is a main supply route for the terrorists to infiltrate and receive arms across the Turkish border, terrorists were targeted and suffered losses in the villages of Kafer Saghir and Dwair al-Zaitoun in Jabal Samaan area.
An army unit killed and injured a number of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations and destroyed a number of their machineguns-equipped vehicles in al-Mansoura village, 10km to the west of Aleppo city.
Several terrorist positions were also targeted in the neighborhoods of Bani Zaid, al-Sakhour, Hanano, Karm Jabal, Salah Eddin, Alliramoun and Bab al-Nairab in Aleppo city.
Idleb
An army unit killed all members of a terrorist group in an ambush around the National Hospital in Jisr al-Shughour city in the countryside of the northern Idleb province.
Units of the army and armed forces carried out night raids against a number of military posts to which the armed terrorists groups had infiltrated at the surroundings of Jisr al-Shughour city in Idleb countryside, and the north western countryside of Hama, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment and pursuing those who fled.
Earlier Saturday, the army had redeployed units in the surroundings of Jisr al-Shughour to avoid any civilian casualties and fortified its defensive positions in the city’s vicinity, while it launched concentrated strikes against groups of terrorists and their supply routes in the city, killing and injuring scores of terrorists and destroying their weapons and equipment, in addition to destroying a convoy of terrorists’ vehicles coming across the Turkish border at al-Qeniyeh-al-Janoudiyeh axis in the countryside of the northern province.
Another army unit destroyed an armored vehicle and eliminatesd 15 terrorists during a failed infiltration attempt in the surroundings of al-Qarmid factory.
According to a military source, the army air force destroyed a convoy of vehicles and vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns for terrorists on al-Janwdia-Jisr Ashughour axis in Idleb countryside, in addition to destroying three vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns and targeting a concentration of terrorists in Qumainas, killing many terrorists and injuring others.
Army units foiled terrorists’ attempt to infiltrate into Ma’mal al-Qarmid area in Idleb countryside, killing and injuring dozens of terrorists and destroying armored vehicles and vehicles equipped with machineguns.
Army air forces targeted terrorists’ gatherings and hideouts in al-Mshirfa, al-Sukkaryeh and Hallouz in Jisr al-Shughour, killing and injuring dozens of terrorists and destroying a number of vehicles equipped with machineguns
Daraa
Army units eliminated a number of terrorists, most of them members of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and destroyed their gatherings and dens in Busr al-Harir and al-Hrak in the northeastern countryside of Daraa.
A number of terrorists were killed during Army continuous operations against terrorists’ hideouts in al-Bai’at village in al-Lajat area.
An Army unit killed a number of terrorists and injured others in al-Yadoua and al-Mzeirib towns.
In Nawa town, the Army targeted a hideout for terrorists, inflicting heavy losses on them.
Quneitra
The army targeted dens and gatherings of terrorists in Rasm al-Khawaled village in the northeastern countryside of Quneitra province, killing scores killed and their arms and ammunition destroyed.
More groups of terrorists were targeted in al-Hamidiyeh village to the west of Quneitra city, with many of them getting killed or injured.
Meanwhile, terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages the death of Ali al-Qab’ani, leader of the so-called “Al-Karama Brigade” of “Fajr al-Tawhid” terrorist group.
Earlier on Saturday, army units killed in special operations a number of terrorists and destroyed their weapons and ammunition near al-Hamidiyeh village, in addition to killing and injuring a number of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups in al-Samadaniyeh al-Gharbiyeh village in the northeastern countryside of Quneitra.
An army unit targeted with intensive strikes terrorists’ dens in Mashara village, inflicting heavy losses in their ranks.