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Provinces, SANA- Units of the army and the armed forces on Sunday continued to launch wide-scale military operations against the terrorist organizations across the country, destroying their dens and gatherings and killing scores of their members.
Daraa
Units of the army directly targeted positions of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and the so-called “Al-Muthanna Movement” in al-Manshiyeh and al-Arbaeen neighborhoods in Daraa al- Balad in the city of Daraa, southern Syria.
A number of terrorists were killed others were wounded in the operations, a military source told SANA.
The source added that the army smashed dens of terrorists near the Engineers building, Agriculture Research Center in al-Samakiat, Dael towns and al-Karak neighborhood in Daraa and its countryside.
During the operations, the army killed a number of terrorists and inured many others in addition to destroying an armored vehicle.
More terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra organization were killed as their gatherings were targeted in Kafar Shams village, 60 km north of Daraa city. A number of vehicles, some of them equipped with heavy machine guns, were destroyed.
Lattakia
The army thwarted terrorists’ attempt to infiltrate into Nab’ al-Mur area, destroying their hideouts, vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns and mortars in Atira, al-Souda, Ghammam, Zahi Mount and al-Sukkaryeh in Lattakia northern countryside.
Quneitra
In the neighboring Quneitra province, an army unit destroyed hideouts and gatherings of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra near Um al-Izam dam in the occupied Syrian Golan, where terrorists infiltrate, backed by the Israeli forces.
The operations resulted in killing a number of terrorists, injuring others and destroying their arms and ammunition.
Homs
The army killed or injured a number of terrorists from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a concentrated operation Rahoum village, the most prominent stronghold of ISIS in the eastern countryside of Homs, according to a military source.
The source told SANA that units of the army killed scores of terrorists and destroyed their arms and ammunition in the villages of Rajm al-Aali and Um Sahrij in the eastern countryside.
Meanwhile, an army unit killed a number of terrorists and injured others in al-Rastan al-Tahtani area, according to the source.
Units of the army repelled an attack by ISIS terrorists against a military check-point in al-Hafna area to the east of Palmyra city in Homs central province.
The operation resulted in the killing of 15 terrorists, injuring many others and seizing amounts of weapons and ammos.
Meanwhile, an army engineering unit dismantled a number of explosive devices weighing 20-40 kg which terrorists planted on Palmyra- al-Sukhna Road in Homs countryside.
Aleppo
Units of the army and the armed forces carried out on Sunday accurate operations against gatherings of terrorists in a number of neighborhoods in Aleppo city and destroyed one of the terrorists’ supply routes in the countryside.
A military source told SANA that the operations in the city were concentrated in Old Aleppo and other neighborhoods, killing a number of terrorists and injuring others, in addition to destroying their arms and ammunition.
In the framework of operations to cut off the terrorists’ supply routes, units of the army targeted dens in the areas surrounding al-
Mallah farms and Dweir al-Zaitoun in the northern countryside of the province.
Many terrorists who were inside the dens were killed or wounded, while their arms and ammunition were destroyed.
Meanwhile, in the southwestern countryside of the province, an army unit carried out a special operation against gatherings of terrorists who are mostly from Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization, killing or injuring scores of them in Khan Touman village.
The military source also said that an army unit destroyed terrorists’ dens with ammunition and arms inside around the thermal plant to the east of Aleppo City on Aleppo-Raqqa road. A number of terrorists were killed in the operation.
Terrorist organizations admitted that they suffered heavy losses as many of their members were killed. Those included terrorist
Abdul-Qader Sheikh Jneid, who is the military leader of the so-called “Shams al-Shamal Brigades” and terrorist Mohammad Mustafa Da’boul.
