As the army continues advancing in al-Zabadani city in Damascus Countryside, its units in other areas inflict more losses upon the terrorists, leaving many of them dead or injured and destroyed their equipment.
As the army continues advancing in al-Zabadani city in Damascus Countryside, its units in other areas inflict more losses upon the terrorists, leaving many of them dead or injured and destroyed their equipment, state-run SANA news agency reported.
In Al-Zabadani, Damascus Countryside, an army unit, in cooperation with the Lebanese Resistance, went on advancing on central al-Zabadani city, establishing control over a number of building blocks in the al-Zahraa area and al-Gharbi neighborhood to the west of the city center, a military source told SANA on Sunday.
A large number of terrorists were killed in the course of the army’s advance, including Mohammad Salem Ghaliyoun, a leader of one of the terrorist groups, and the terrorist Abdo al-Assaf. Other terrorists were captured.
Yesterday, the army and the Resistance controlled a number of building blocks in Za’tout neighborhood and at the corniche roundabout in al-Zabadani city, located to the northwest of Damascus.
In the meantime, the army’s air force killed at least 30 terrorists of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group, most of them of Saudi and Tunisian nationalities, in al-Qaryatain city in the countryside of Homs province.
Among the killed terrorists were the two Saudis Abu Hajar and Abu Abdullah.
The army’s strikes left a rocket depot and 7 vehicles equipped with various machinegun destroyed.
Last Wednesday, ISIL terrorists infiltrated into al-Qaryatain, kidnapped 230 civilians, among them women and children and robbed scores of city’s houses.
The United States vehemently condemned ISIL kidnappings in al-Qaryatain city and demanded the immediate and unconditioned release of all the kidnapped civilians.
Meanwhile, the army air force killed a number of ISIL terrorists and destroyed their vehicles to the west of Palmyra city, in the countryside of the central province of Homs.
In Lattakia, units of the army and the armed forces, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, carried out on Sunday morning intensive operations against positions of al-Nusra Front terrorists in the northern countryside of the coastal Lattakia province.
Terrorists’ supply routes in al-Rihaniyeh village near the border with Turkey were targeted.
A car loaded with ammunition was destroyed in the village, in addition to destroying a depot containing huge amounts of explosive devices, shells and explosives.
Many of the terrorists were killed and scores were injured in the operations.
In the southern province of Daraa, an army unit targeted terrorists’ movements in Simlin town in the northern countryside, killing and injuring a number of them and destroying a vehicle with all weapons and ammunition carried on board it.
Another army unit clashed with an armed terrorist group that tried to infiltrate from the villages of Rakhm and al-Karak al-Sharqi in the eastern countryside of the province towards the village of Skaka, located in the neighboring Sweida province.
All members of the terrorist group were killed during the clashes and their weapons, ammunition and equipment were destroyed.
Meanwhile, the terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages the killing of a number of their members, among them the leader of the so-called Ansar Mohammad Battalion” who was nicknamed Malek Mahmoud Shlash.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fuelled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 230,000 people, according to reports. New figures show that over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, lost their lives in Syria last year.
Over 3.8 million Syrians have left their country since the beginning of the crisis. According to reports, more than seven million Syrians have become internally displaced.
