The Syrian army is making advances in the countryside of both provinces of Aleppo and Hama, while its units, backed by the Air Force, continue targeting terrorists’ positions in other provinces

The Syrian army is making advances in the countryside of both provinces of Aleppo and Hama, while its units, backed by the Air Force, continue targeting terrorists’ positions in other provinces, destroying more sites and equipment and killing many terrorists.

Aleppo

Army units established control over al-Sreib village and the surrounding farms in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province, sources on the ground told SANA on Thursday.

Fierce clashes with ISIL terrorists preceded this new advance, said the sources, noting that the clashes resulted in the death of most of the terrorists, while the rest fled to neighboring villages.

Subsequently, the army units reopened the road linking between Eishe village and the villages of Ein al-Bayda, al-Sreib and Nasrallah reaching to Aleppo-Raqqa highway after dismantling the mines and explosive devices planted earlier by ISIL members, according to the sources.

In the meantime, army units killed a number of terrorists in the neighborhoods of al-Shaar, al-Lairamoun, Bani Zaid, al-Sukkari, Karm al-Mayser, al-Ansari, Bab al-Hadid, al-Rashidin and al-Sheikh Saeed in Aleppo city, a military source said.

Gatherings of al-Nusra-linked terrorists were targeted in Old Aleppo, with a number of them getting killed or wounded.

In the western countryside of the province, army units killed many terrorists, injured others and destroyed their arms during operations against their dens in al-Abawiyeh village, south of Khirbet Hazmar and al-Mansoura.

Army operations also targeted terrorists in Tal Rifaat, 35 km to the north of Aleppo city, and west of al-Nairab airport in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo.

Hama

In the same context, army units established control over Deir al-Fardis town in the southern countryside of Hama province.

Earlier, an army unit carried out special operation on the position of the so called “Tajamu’a al-Ezza” terrorist group in al-Latamneh town, 35 to the north of Hama city, in the northern countryside of Hama province.

At least five terrorists were killed, including the terrorist “Mohammad al-Ali”, and their position was destroyed completely in the army’s operation.

Elsewhere, an army unit killed two terrorists and injured 12 others from the so called “Jaish al- Islam” terrorist group in a special operation carried out at dawn on their positions in the surrounding of Kefr Zaita.

Additionally, A vehicle was destroyed for the so called “Ajnad al-Cham” terrorist group and a number of terrorists were killed in army operation in Kefr Zaita town.