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Provinces, SANA – Army units continued operations against terrorist organizations on Friday, hitting more of their positions in various areas and destroying their equipment and weapons.
Idleb
The army air force destroyed dens of “Jabhat al-Nusra” in Kan-Safra Tauom, Tal Zardana, al-Tamani’a, Tal’as, Binnish, Abu al-Dohour, Tal Salmo, Um Jrin and Ariha in Idleb countryside.
Homs
The Syrian Arab Army’s Air Force carried out a series of concentrated airstrikes on concentrations of ISIS terrorists in the surroundings of the driving school, the old post office, and the municipality parking lot in Palmyra city in Homs province.
A military source told SANA that the airstrikes resulted in killing and injuring many terrorists and inflicted heavy losses in equipment on them.
More ISIS terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by the Air Force on their gatherings in the surroundings of the quarries area around 30km southeast of Palmyra city, destroying assorted vehicles used by terrorists including an armored vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun and a 57mm cannon.
Later, the source said that army units killed many terrorists and destroyed their vehicles east of al-Bayyarart, in al-Masek mountain, the southern slopes of Hayal mountain, and southeast of al-Muthallath in Palmyra countryside.
In the province’s eastern countryside, the army destroyed terrorist hideouts in the villages of Oum Sihreej, al-Shendakhiye al-Janoubiye, al-Sokhna, Jbab Hamad, al-Kadim, Rasm al-Sab’a, east of al-Shumariye station, and al-Wadihi, leaving a number of terrorists dead and destroying their weapons and equipment.
In Homs’ northwestern countryside, an army unit foiled an attempt by terrorists coming from the direction of Kafr Laham, al-Tibeh, and Tal Dahab village to infiltrate a military checkpoint in al-Houla area, killing and injuring all of the attackers and destroying their vehicles, weapons, and equipment.
Another army unit destroyed a hideout for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in al-Rastan al-Foqani in the province’s northern countryside, leaving many terrorists dead.
Hama
In the neighboring province of Hama, army units killed a number of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their machineguns-equipped vehicles in al-Rahjan to the east of Hama city.
The army also targeted terrorists’ hideouts and concentrations in al-Mafkar village in al-Salamyeh countryside, killing a number of them and destroying their weaponry and munitions.
Lattakia
The Army air force destroyed dens and vehicles, some of them equipped with machineguns, and killed dozens of terrorists in Marj Khokha, Shalaf, Dwirika, al-Sikaria and al-Dura in the northern countryside of the coastal Lattakia province.
Aleppo
Army and Armed Forces units destroyed concentrations of terrorists in the areas of the Scientific Research Center, Bani Zeid, al-Khalidiye, Karm al-Tarab, and al-Atareb in the countryside of Aleppo province.
A military source told SANA that the operations resulted in eliminating many terrorists and destroying vehicles equipped with machineguns.
Another army unit destroyed a 140-meters-long tunnel extending from the direction of al-Jdaideh village in the east to the housings area in the surroundings of the Air Force Academy in Aleppo’s eastern countryside, eliminating all the terrorists that were in the tunnel.
Daraa
A Syrian Arab Army unit eliminated a number of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra who had snuck from Daraa al-Balad neighborhood to Daraa al-Mahata neighborhood in Daraa city, a military source told SANA.
The source added that other units eliminated concentrations of Jabhat al-Nusra and “Al-Muthana Islamic Movement” terrorist groups in Daraa al-Balad, and that the army’s operations in the neighborhood inflicted losses in personnel and equipment on terrorists and crippled their movements.
Army units also targeted hideouts of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the town of al-Nueimeh 4km east of Daraa city, destroying four vehicles loaded with weapons and ammo and killing a leader of a terrorist group who was known as “al-Zarqawi.”
Other units targeted terrorists’ hideouts east of al-Bittar farm northwest of Daraa city, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying their weapons and equipment, while in the province’s northwestern countryside, hideouts and weapons and ammo caches of Jabhat al-Nusra were destroyed in the town of al-Yadouda, leaving a number of terrorists dead or injured.
An army unit destroyed a rocket launcher to the south of Tafas and killed a number of terrorists, while another unit targeted terrorists’ movement east of the town of Tisia near the Jordanian borders, destroying a vehicle equipped with a machinegun and killing and injuring many terrorists.
Sweida
A terrorist group that tried to infiltrate towards Bouthaina Hill in the northeastern countryside of the neighboring Sweida province was repelled, with many of its members getting killed.
