Units of the Syrian army and armed forces on Saturday continued its mop-up operations, tightening the noose around foreign-backed terrorists in several areas across the country, SANA reported.
Units of the Syrian army and armed forces on Saturday continued its mop-up operations, tightening the noose around foreign-backed terrorists in several areas across the country, SANA reported.
Damascus Countryside
A military source said that an army unit killed terrorists of Nusra-linked “Liwa al-Haq” and “Liwa al-Furqan” terrorist groups in Khan al-Sheeh area in Damascus Countryside.
Homs
Army units destroyed a truck laden with terrorist’s weapons and explosives and killed many terrorists in continuous operations in the eastern countryside of the central Homs province.
A military source told SANA that an army unit destroyed a truck loaded with big amounts of weapons and explosives near Hannoura village, 40 km to the east of Homs city, leaving all the terrorists aboard dead.
Other army units, the source added, killed numbers of takfiri terrorist organizations’ members in the eastern countryside of the province during operations launched against their gatherings in Onq al-Hawa village and the area between Manoukh and al-Tafha villages.
Army units also clashed with terrorists who attacked Jebb al-Jarrah town, using different sorts of weapons, where many terrorists were killed or injured and their weapons were destroyed.
The source also said army units destroyed a vehicle, leaving all the terrorists on board killed in al-Ballan village in al-Rastan area.
Daraa
A military source told SANA that the army destroyed a number of vehicles with all terrorists onboard in Aqraba village in the countryside of the southern province of Daraa.
Hasaka
Units of the army and armed forces carried out a series of operations using heavy artillery fire against the terrorists of ISIL.
The terrorists’ sites targeted by the army were in Tal S’teih, Tal Ahmad, Tawarij, and Taktak roundabout, a source in the northeastern province explained.
The source added that the army operations also resulted in the killing and the injuring of many ISIS terrorists and the destruction of a bulldozer which the terrorists were using in destroying houses and establishing fortifications.
SANA reporter quoted the source as saying that phone calls by members of ISIS groups were listened in to in which the terrorists were appealing for help over the large numbers of those who were killed and wounded during the army’s operations against their gatherings and hideouts.
Sweida
A unit of the army and armed forces destroyed a heavy machinegun- equipped vehicle, killing all terrorists aboard, in Tal Ashhib al-Janoubi in the countryside of the southern province.