Provinces, SANA- Units of the armed forces carried out operations against dens and gatherings of terrorists in several areas across the country, killing and injuring many of them, in addition to destroying their weapons and equipment.
Aleppo
Army units killed terrorists and injured others in al- Rashideen, the Old City, al-Ashrafiyeh, Katerji, Khan Touman, al-Layramoun, al-Nayrab and al-Adhamiyeh in the city and countryside of Aleppo.
The takfiri terrorist organizations spread in Aleppo are operating in line with a foreign agenda backed by the Turkish, Saudi and Qatar regimes.
Most leaders and members of these organizations are of Saudi, Qatari, Chechen, Turkish, Uzbekistani and other foreign nationalities who infiltrated the Turkish border into Syria.
Chief among those organizations are Jabhat al-Nusra, Hazm Movement, Noureddin al-Zanki Movement, al-Mujahideen Army, Jabhat Ansar Eddin, Ahfad al-Fatiheen Brigade, al-Salajeka Brigade, al-Sultan Murad Brigade, al-Sultan Abel-Hamid Brigade, Ahrar al-Sham Movement, Islamic Front and al-Tawheed Brigade.
Army units killed a number of terrorists and destroy their vehicles and weapons’ caches in Bayanoon in Aleppo countryside.
Idleb
Army units eliminated a number of terrorists and destroyed their weapons and ammunition in al-Janoudiyeh, al-Rami and the area surrounding Abu al-Duhour in the countryside of the northern province of Idleb.
A military source told SANA that the army targeted terrorists’ hideouts and concentrations in Ariha, Jisr al-Shughour, and Abu al-Duhour, killing and injuring scores of terrorists and destroying their weapons and ammunition.
Homs
An army unit, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, hunted down terrorists in the farms surrounding al-Waer neighborhood in Homs, killing a number of the terrorists and wounding others.
Other army units killed and injured several terrorists in the areas of al-Shaer, Hasya, Khatmalo and Khattab and in al-Samarmar valley in the countryside of the central province of Homs, destroying their weapons and equipment.
Hama
A military source said the army targeted terrorists’ hideouts in Kifr Zeita, killing dozens of them and destroying their vehicles and weapons.
The source added that the army killed a number of terrorists in Talaf area, 40 km north-west of Hama city.
Damascus Countryside
A military source said the army killed and injured scores of terrorists in Khan al-Sheeh and near Sa’sa’ in Damascus Countryside.
SANA reporter said the army killed and injured about 20 terrorists and destroyed weapons caches in Harasta.
Similar operations were carried out in Ein Tarma, Kifr Batna, and Douma, a number of terrorists were killed or injured in the process, among the dead were Gandi al-Jarrah from Kuwait.
The army pursued terrorists in al-Nashabbyeh, and Daraya, killing and injuring a number of them and destroying their weapons.
Daraa
The army units killed and injured a number of terrorists in al-Sheikh Miskeen in Daraa countryside and established control over many blocks in the city.
A military source said that the army also clashed with terrorists in Ataman, Tafas, Inkhel, Ibta, al-Faqee and Alma, huge numbers of terrorists were killed in the process.
The terrorist groups confessed that many of their leaders were killed, including Alaa al-Shummari, Fayez Yousef Kharub, Abdullah Ahmad Jamal al-Hussein and Wael Ismael al-Obaid.