Provinces, SANA – Intensifying airstrikes and artillery fire, the Army carried out on Friday more operations targeting positions of the terrorist organizations on a large scale, hemming them in and inflicting severe losses upon their ranks in many various areas.
Idleb
A military source said Army units have engaged in heavy clashes with terrorist organizations in the area surrounding Jisr al-Shougour city, killing tens of their members and destroying some of their vehicles and a car bomb near the southern entrance of the city.
Army units destroyed hideouts of terrorists in Binnesh, Bzabour, Majdelia, Kfar Lata, M’arblit in the countryside of Idleb province, leaving large numbers of them killed and destroying their arms and weapons.
Hama
In the neighboring Hama province, the army carried out a night raid in the area surrounding al-Qahira town in the countryside, killing numbers of terrorists. The units are hunting down terrorists who fled near al-Qahira and al-Enkawi.
Damascus countryside
An Army unit destroyed a vehicle and killed many terrorists in Gbeir square in Erbin town in Damascus Countryside, SANA reporter said.
Ahmad al-Wadaat, Salim Dukmak, Jamil al-Idelbi, Firas al-Sirwan and the Lebanese Mohamed Tleis were identified among the dead.
The terrorists Adeeb al-Obeidat from Jordan, Fahed al-Mzeidy from Saudi Arabia, Zuhair al-Namla from Palestine, Abdo al-Rahman and Abdo al-Shami were confirmed killed in the southern outskirts of Doma city. Three of their vehicles were also destroyed with all ammunition they were carrying.
Another Army unit targeted a terrorist group in the northern farms of Harasta, killing many terrorists, injuring others and destroying their weapons and ammo.
Army units continued their operations targeting terrorists’ hideouts in al-Misherfa, Assal al-Ward and Ras al-Maarra towns, eliminating a number of Jabhat al-Nusra members.
Hasaka
Army units targeted in an accurate operation a den belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) where field commanders in the organization were gathered in al-Mittein area in the middle of al-Shaddadi city.
The operation resulted in the death of all terrorists inside the den.
ISIS acknowledged via twitter the death of many of its members as confirmed by local sources in the city who said most of the dead are “foreign mercenaries.”
In al-Shadadi city, a number of ISIS members were killed and their weapons and ammo were destroyed during an Army accurate strike against their gatherings in the area surrounding al-Shaddadi Hotel.
Army engineering units carried out a controlled detonation of a bike which terrorists had rigged with explosives and parked near al-Nashwa Bridge in Hasaka city, a source at Hasaka province told SANA.
Homs
Units of Army carried out special operations against the gatherings of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday night and Friday morning in Arshouna, al-Midraja, Rajm al-Aly and Rajm al-Qassr villages east of Homs city, inflicting heavy losses in their ranks.
In Rahoom village on the administrative borders with Raqqa, Army operations targeted terrorists’ hideouts, causing the death of many of them and destroying their weaponry.
In Palmyra countryside, an Army unit carried out an accurate operation against ISIS’ vehicles, destroying two of them with all terrorists, weapons and ammunition on board near the oil well 105 in Mount al-Shaer area.
The Army operation in al-Shaer Mount area comes in the framework of a series of operations to protect oil and gas fields from ISIS attacks.
Aleppo
The army destroyed in large-scale operations several dens of terrorists, killing numbers of them, in the vicinity of the Air Force Academy, al-Lairamoun, Salah-Eddin, al-Marjeh, al-Sakhour, al-Inzarat, Qadi Askar, Bani Zaid, al-Maisar, Qubtan al-Jabal, al-Breij, al-Atareb, Daret Izza and Mare’ in the countryside and city of Aleppo.
A military source said the army units destroyed terrorists’ hideouts, killed terrorists and injured others in Andan, Bustan al-Qasr, al-Salihyeh, al-Kallaseh, Hanano, al-Sukkari, al-Sheikh Khidr, Bab al-Nasr, Old City, Karm al-Tarrab, al-Shaqif, al-Sheikh Lutfi, al-Ansari, al-Amreyeh and Aghyar in Aleppo and its countryside.
Daraa
Army units carried out a number of operations against terrorist groups’ gatherings and concentrations, killing and injuring scores of them and obliterating their positions and concentrations.
A military source told SANA that the army targeted terrorists in a number of areas in Daraa al-Balad, killing a number of terrorists and destroying their weaponry and vehicles.
An army unit targeted terrorists’ hideouts in al-Lujat in Daraa countryside, killing and injuring a number of terrorists.