Provinces, SANA – Units of the armed forces continued on Wednesday to launch military operations against the terrorist organizations across the country, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.
A military source told SANA reporter that army units targeted gatherings of terrorists in Bosra al-Sham, Atman, al-Hrak and al-Yadouda, while other units destroyed a bulldozer in al-Nu’eima town in the countryside of Daraa.
The source confirmed that the operations resulted in the killing of a number of terrorists, while others got wounded.
Army units clashed with terrorists who tried to infiltrate al-Sheikh Miskeen town in Daraa countryside, killing and injuring a number of the assailants.
A source in the province said that among the dead terrorists were Saif Eddin Khaled al-Deiri, who was the leader of the terrorist group, in addition to Alaa Mohammad Jouma al-Shalhoub and Mohammad Khaled al-Awad.
Other units targeted terrorist concentrations and hideouts in the areas of Deir al-Adas, Kafr Nasej, Tal al-Allaqiya, Tal Antar, south of al-Maasara, and on a dirt road between Atman and Tafas in Daraa countryside, eliminating a number of terrorists and injuring others.
An army unit prevented terrorists from infiltrating al-Minshiye neighborhood in Daraa, eliminating many terrorists and injuring others.
Meanwhile, an army unit killed many terrorists and injured others in Mas’hara and al-Samadaniyeh al-Gharbiyeh in the countryside of Quneitra.
A military source said army units targeted a convoy of terrorists’ cars west of Mashara town heading from Mamtana and Rweiheina towns, and destroy several dens in Um Batna in Quneitra countryside.
Several terrorists were killed and others were wounded.
Army units also targeted gatherings of terrorists in Kadin, Salma, Dourin, al-Mugheiriyeh and Tirtyah areas in the northern countryside of the coastal province of Lattakia, killing a big number of them and destroying many of their cars which were equipped with heavy machine guns.
Army units destroyed several boats for terrorists in al-Rastan Lake, killing all terrorists aboard, in addition to eliminating scores of terrorists in al-Waer, al-Sam’alil and Deir Salam in al-Houla and in al-Hilaliya farm in Um Sharshouh in the countryside of the central province of Homs.
Meanwhile, the authorities arrested a terrorist group in al-Meshtaiye village in the countryside of Talkalakh, and seized several explosive devices and drugs.
A source at Homs province told SANA that five terrorists who had been using a house in al-Meshtaiye village in Wadi al-Nadara area as a hideout were arrested, adding that 11 explosive devices and a large cache of medicine and drugs were found inside the house.
Units of the armed forces targeted gatherings of terrorists in the surrounding of al-Shughr town in Jisr al-Shughour and in the areas of Kafar Najd, Kafar Lata, al-Araba’een mountain, Nahla, al-Beit al-Sini, al-Rami and Mantaf in the countryside of the northern province of Idleb, according to a military source.
SANA reporter quoted the source as saying that many terrorists were killed and one of their cars which was equipped with a heavy machine gun and an anti-tank base were destroyed during the operations.
Among the terrorists who were killed in the surrounding of al-Shughir town are Yunus Mohammad al-As’ad, Khaldoun Abu Qadir and Said al-Yusuf, according to the source.
In Deir Ezzor, a unit of the armed forces destroyed two dens for ISIS terrorists in Nazlet al-Rdeisat the city, killing and injuring several of them.
A source at the province told SANA that other army units wounded several ISIS terrorists and destroyed their vehicles and weapons while targeting their gatherings in the streets of al-Takaya and Hweijeh Sakr in the city.