Provinces, SANA- Units of the army and the armed forces on Tuesday continued to launch wide-scale military operations against dens and positions of the Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country, destroying their vehicles and ammunition and killing scores of their members.
Damascus countryside
The army established control on the peak of the mountainous chain which overlooks al-Qasarat, Harasta and Douma regions on the western outskirts of Eastern al-ghouta in Damascus countryside.
The army’s operations against terrorists of so-called “Jaish al-Islam” ended up with the killing of a number of terrorists and destroying their weapons.
Meanwhile, terrorist organizations acknowledged on their websites the killing of several terrorists, among them, Yahya al-Wazir, Anas Rashid, Ala al-Najar and Mohammad Bashir al-Najar.
Quneitra
Units of the army and armed forces, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, destroyed a number of terrorists’ vehicles in operations carried out last night and Tuesday morning against their dens and positions in the countryside of the southern Quneitra province.
A military source told SANA that two armored vehicles belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were destroyed and a number of them were killed in the villages of al-Hamidyia, Abu Shabta and Jibat al-Khashab.
Field sources told SANA that a unit of the army, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, in Khan Arnaba destroyed four of the terrorists’ machinegun-equipped vehicles and killed all terrorists onboard on the road linking al-Hurriya and al-Hamidyia in the northwestern countryside of the province.
The sources added that a unit of the army destroyed an armored vehicles belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in a concentrated strike against one of their hotbeds in al-Hamidyia, 7 km to the north of Quneitra City.
Another unit of the army, in cooperation with the popular defense groups in Hadar village, repelled an attempt by terrorists to infiltrate the sites of al-Hamryia in Hadar village and al-Amal farms to the east of Taranja, killing scores of terrorists and injuring others.
Meanwhile, a unit of the army, in cooperation with the popular committees in Harfa village, also foiled an attempt by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists to infiltrate from Beit Jin farm to Mashati Hadar “farmers’ houses”.
Aleppo
Units of the army and armed forces carried out intensive operations against dens and hotbeds of the ISIS terrorists and other Takfiri organizations in the northern Aleppo province.
Army units defending Air Force Academy destroyed a number of the ISIS vehicles and killed a number of them in operations against their hotbeds in the surroundings of the Academy.
In Aleppo city, many terrorists were killed in operations carried out by the army against the hotbeds of the so-called “al-Tawhid Brigade,” “Arhar al-Sham Islamic Movement,” “Soqour al-Sham Brigades,” “Jaish al-Islam,” and other Takfiri organizations in the neighborhoods of Bostan al-Basha, Karm al-Jabal, al-Kallasa, al-Sheikh Said, Qadi Askar, al-Mashhad, al-Rashidin 4, al-Salihin,Bani Zaid, Karm al-Qatrji and al-Sha’ar.
To the southwest of Aleppo City, units of the army killed scores of terrorists and injured others and destroyed a number of their vehicles and their ammunition in concentrated operations against their positions in Khan al-Asal, Khawabi al-Asal and al-Mansoura, 10 km to the west of Aleppo City.
On the road leading to al-Nairab Airport, a unit of the army killed a number of terrorists and destroyed their arms and vehicles in a precise operation against their dens and positions in Aziza village, 4 km to the southeast of Aleppo City.
Lattakia
In the coastal Lattakia province, 20 terrorists, 15 of them Chechen, were killed during army operations
that targeted their hideouts in al-Rawda village in the northern countryside.
Homs
Army units destroyed vehicles belonging to ISIS, some equipped with machine guns, and killed many of the terrorist organization’s members in the surroundings of al-Shaer oil field and in Tadmur (Palmyra) city in the eastern countryside of the central Homs province.
Army units also eliminated a number of terrorists in al-Sa’n al-Aswad and al-Ghantu in the countryside of the province.
Idleb/Hama
The army targeted positions of Jaish al-Fateh terrorists, who are linked to Jabhat al-Nusra, in the countryside of the neighboring Hama and Idleb provinces, inflicting losses upon them in various areas.
A number of terrorists were killed in army airstrikes that targeted their movements in Maaret al-Nouman city and the villages of Tramla, Kafr Nubul and Hazarin in Maaret al-Nouman area in the southern countryside of Idleb.
The airstrikes destroyed a number of vehicles equipped with machine guns and a large quantity of advanced weapons.
Gatherings of terrorists and others hideouts were targeted by the army’s air force in Maardabseh village in Saraqeb area in the southwestern countryside.
In the northwestern countryside of Hama province, the army’s air force targeted hideouts of Jaish al-Fateh terrorists in al-Lattamneh and Kafer Zita towns, leaving a number of them dead and their arms, ammunition and vehicles, some of which equipped with machine guns, destroyed.