Syrian Security Forces clashed on Tuesday with militant rebel group near the martyrs’ cemetery in the district of al-Hajar al-Aswad in Damascus countryside and killed number of its members.

Syrian Security Forces clashed on Tuesday with militant rebel group near the martyrs' cemetery in the district of al-Hajar al-Aswad in Damascus countryside and killed number of its members, state-run SANA news agency reported.

The army cleaned al-Quneitra Street and the surrounding areas from the mercenary terrorists and killed large numbers of them.

According to SANA, a unit of the army clashed with terrorists in Bustan al-Qasr and inflicted heavy losses upon them. An armed terrorist group blasted a five-story empty residential building in al-Jdeida after trapping it with several improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

An official source told SANA reporter that the blast claimed the lives of two army soldiers.

A unit of the army destroyed three truck loaded with weapons and ammunition and two DShK-equipped cars and killed the terrorists riding in them in al-Mansoura area in Aleppo.

The army also foiled two infiltration attempts by armed terrorist groups from Lebanon in Idlen and Halat areas in Talkalakh, Homs countryside.

A source at the province told SANA that scores of terrorists were killed or wounded in the clashes.

Earlier, the Armed Forces clashed with a terrorist group that was terrorizing and attacking citizens on al-Mishyrfeh-Homs road and killed several terrorists.

Also on Monday, authorities clashed with an armed terrorist group that was attacking citizens and law-enforcement personnel in Hisyeh area, killing a terrorist and arresting another one.