Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Provinces, SANA_ The Syrian Army, backed by the air force, on Thursday continued heavy military operations on the fortified positions of the terrorist groups, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.
Aleppo
A military source said that scores of positions and vehicles for terrorist groups were destroyed during sorties by the Syrian Army Air Force against the axes of their movements in Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Idleb countryside.
The source explained in a statement to SANA that Syria’s army Air force carried out 26 sorties during which 101 strikes were directed against gatherings, positions and axes of movements of terrorist groups, killing scores of terrorists.
Army units in cooperation with the allied forces under air cover by the Syrian warplanes clashed with a terrorist group affiliated to the so-called Jaish al-Fateh which infiltrated to some military posts south west Aleppo.
The clashes ended by foiling the attack, destroying vehicles of terrorists, killing a number of them and hunting their remnants in thearea.
The warplanes destroyed depots and two positions for Jabhat al-Nusrra terrorists in Khan al-Assal, Khan Touman and Uram al-Kubra and killed a number of them and injured others.
The military source said that air strikes targeted axes of movements of the so-called Jaish al-Fateh and destroyed a number of their vehicles in Kafar Hamra and al Mansoura in the southern and western countryside.
Takfiri terrorist organizations acknowledged that more than 120 of their members were killed, including leaders in the southern countryside of Aleppo during the past two days, whereas field reports affirmed that more than 800 terrorists were killed and hundreds others were injured including a number of Turkistan Islamic Party members.
Homs
Units of the army and armed forces carried out an operation against gatherings of the ISIS terrorist organization in the eastern countryside of Homs central province.
A military source told SANA that units of the army destroyed hotbeds of the ISIS terrorists in the villages of Sallam Gharbi and Unq al-Hawa, 73 km to the east of Homs City.
Army units also destroyed ISIS gatherings and hideouts in Sallam Gharbi and Unq al-Hawa in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Another army unit destroyed a position and a depot for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Kafar Lahha village in the northern countryside of Homs.
Hama
Syrian army air force destroyed ISIS vehicles, some equipped with machineguns and loaded with terrorists east of Khanaser town in the northeastern outskirts of Hama province.
The army killed a number of the ISIS members and injured others after targeting their gatherings and movement axes east of the town.
Daraa
A military source said that mortar launchers and vehicles for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed and others were injured in Daraa al-Balad where terrorists launch their attacks with shells on nearby neighborhoods and villages.
The source added in a statement to SANA that an army unit directed concentrated strikes on two terrorist groups whose members were fortifying positions, sweeping away the land and destroying houses in al-Abbasiyeh and Daraa al-Mahatta neighborhoods.
Most of the terrorists in both terrorist groups were killed along with their criminal tools which were destroyed.
Another army unit destroyed mortar launchers and motorcycles for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and killed a number of them in various areas in Daraa al-Balad.
Later on Thursday, an army unit killed a number of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and injured others during strikes against their gatherings to the east of al-Omari Mosque and east the post office building in Daraa al-Balad.
Quneitra
An army unit carried out a military operation against a terrorist group in the ruined part of Quneitra city, destroying a vehicle equipped with a machinegun and killing or injuring many of the terrorists.
A field source told SANA that an army unit in cooperation with popular defense groups in Khan Arnaba destroyed a terrorists’ tunnel near Abu Shabta site on al-Hamidiyeh-Jebbata al-Khashab road in the northern countryside of the Province.
The source added that destroying the tunnel will help block the road the terrorists use for transferring weapons and ammunition and for their movement as well as their targeting the residential neighborhoods in al-Baath city.
Sweida
An army unit thwarted two ISIS terrorist attacks on Tal Zalfaa and Abu Harat
village in the northeastern countryside of Sweida province.
An army unit clashed with armed terrorist groups which attempted to infiltrate from al-Badia towards the village of Abu Harat and Tal Zalfaa, about 50 km northeast of Sweida city.
The source added that the army destroyed ISIS vehicles, some equipped with machineguns and killed and injured most of terrorists.
Damascus Countryside
Units of Army, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control on Housh al-Farah village in eastern Ghouta and pursued remnants of terrorists who fled into the direction of Housh Nasri.
With this new progress, the army became nearly only 6 km away from Douma, one of the biggest dens of terrorists in Eastern Ghouta.
Earlier, army units retaliated the breach of the cessation of hostilities agreement by terrorists and target a number of their positions and gatherings in the eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside.
An army unit destroyed one of the gatherings of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in Khan al-Shih in Damascus countryside.
The army units targeted the terrorist organizations’ positions in the eastern Ghouta (al-Ghouta al-Sharqiyeh).
The army inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorist organizations in personnel and equipment, killing and injuring a number of their members.
