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Provinces, SANA- Units of the army and armed forces on Saturday continued to launch wide-scale military operations against Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country, killing scores of terrorists and destroying their fortifications, arms and ammunition.
Hasaka
The Army units and the national support forces have made progress in hunting down ISIS terrorists in the neighborhoods of al-Nashwa al-Sharqiyeh and al-Nashwa al-Gharbiye in the city of Hasaka, coming closer to declaring the two neighborhoods secure.
Field sources told SANA on Saturday that army units advanced further towards more building blocks in al-Nashwah al-Sharqiyeh, re-assuming control of more areas there.
The sources added that ISIS terrorists were driven out of large swathes on the axis linking al-Bassel roundabout and Banorama roundabout in the eastern side of the neighborhood, with them suffering heavy losses in personnel and equipment.
The national support forces in al-Nashwa al-Gharbiyeh neighborhood established control over al-Sharia roundabout, a number of building blocks and the roundabout near the Electricity Company, and have continued to advance towards the Children Hospital and the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences after eliminating scores of terrorists and destroying their hideouts.
Lattakia
The army units in the northern countryside of Lattakia province on the border with Turkey have also been advancing in various areas.
Aided by the popular defense groups, the army units have progressed in the military operation targeting dens and positions of terrorists in the villages of al-Durra, Dwairka, al-Sukkariyeh, Marj Khoukha and Shalaf, 50 km to the northeast of Lattakia City.
A number of terrorists were killed and others were injured and their vehicles were destroyed, in addition to large amounts of arms and ammunition over the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, a series of army air strikes targeted gatherings of terrorists and their dens in al-Sukkariyeh and al-Qasatel in the northern countryside of Lattakia province, leaving many terrorists killed and some of their hideouts and vehicles destroyed.
In the province’s northern countryside, an army unit destroyed terrorists’ vehicles, including armored and machinegun-equipped ones, and killed and injured many terrorists, including members from Jabhat al-Nusra, most of them foreigners, in Kalas village, in addition to destroying a site for training terrorists and weapons and ammo caches in the village.
Aleppo
Army units eliminated a number of terrorists and destroyed their vehicles in al-Sheikh Ahmad, Karm Homad, Mayir, Hayyan, Andan and near the air force academy in Aleppo and its countryside.
Daraa
In southern Syria, a number of terrorists were killed and others were injured in a special operation carried out by the army against their dens in Saida town in the countryside of Daraa province, according to a military source.
The source added that an army unit destroyed a vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun after monitoring the movements of a number of terrorists, most of them from Jabhat al-Nusra, to the east of Taisyia town near the Jordanian borders.
Units of the army continued their operations against terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations, killing scores of them and destroying their dens with all the arms and ammunition inside them in Tafas city and Mzairib and al-Yadouda towns in the northwestern countryside.
On Friday night, units of the army carried out bombardments against dens of the Takfiri organizations in Dael town and to the north of al-Bitar farm in the surroundings of Ataman town, killing a number of terrorists and destroying mortar launchers used by the terrorists in targeting the residential neighborhoods in Daraa city.
In Daraa al-Balad neighborhood, an army unit carried out an operation targeting concentrations of terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and other affiliated terrorist groups west of SyriaTel building and in al-Nazigin camp, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying their weapons and ammo.
Another army unit repelled an attack by a terrorist groups following violent clashes in two areas; one between the town of al-Nuaimeh east of Daraa city and al-Qasr al-Abyad area, and the second between Tafas and al-Bitar farm, and the attack ended after killing and injuring many terrorists and destroying their weapons and ammo.
An army unit also killed all members of a terrorist group and destroyed their ammunition and vehicles to the west of al-Sheikh Hassan, while another unit destroyed an armored vehicle along with the terrorists inside it in al-Zaatar hill and another vehicle equipped with a machinegun west of the al-Suwaqa field area in the province’s countryside.
Meanwhile, the Takfiri terrorist organizations admitted on their pages on the social networking websites that they suffered heavy losses and a large number of their leaders were killed including terrorist Zakaryia al-Abud, the self-claimed leader of the so-called “Fallujah-Horan Brigade.”
Quneitra
In the neighboring Quneitra province, a number of terrorists were killed and others were injured during an
intensive army operation against their dens and gatherings in Tranja and Jabata al-Khashab villages in the northern countryside of the province.
Meanwhile, media reported that Housam Laila and Mohammad Alaa Eddin, two leaders within Jabhat al-Nusra, were identified among the killed terrorists.
An army operation near the juntion between Sahita and al-Samadaniyeh al-Gharbiyeh in the eastern countryside of Quneitra left many terrorists dead or injured.
Homs
Units of the army and armed forces in cooperation with popular defense groups continued to advance towards Palmyra triangle and established full control on the farms surrounding the driving school after destroying ISIS fortifications in the area.
A number of ISIS terrorists were killed and four vehicles destroyed, while three others were damaged.
Later, an army unit set an ambush in which a terrorist group was eliminated north of the quarries near Palmyra.
The army air force destroyed dens and vehicles of ISIS in al-Sekhneh, the city of Palmyra, east of al-Bayarat and to the northwest of Muthalath Palmyra.
The army air force raided ISIS terrorists’ gatherings and movements in Daba’at al-Mlaiha, al- al-Shindakhiyeh al-Janobiyeh, Jebab Hamad and al-Kadim, the army operations ended with destroying the ISIS vehicles and the killing of a number of their members.
Scores of ISIS terrorists were killed in the army air strikes against their gatherings in Rasem al-Sabaa ,Um Sahrij, Tafha, Malloukh, al-Wdaihi in Jeb al-Jarrah, about 73 km east of Homs city.
The army air force destroyed the Takfiri terrorist organizations hideouts in the villages of Ein Hussein, al-Ameriyeh and west of Ein al-Dananir in Ein al-Niser area, about 25 km northeast Homs city, killing and injuring a number of their members and destroying their equipment.
Other units prevented several infiltration attempts by terrorist groups from the directions of the villages of Unq al-Hawa, Rahoum, Oum Sihreej, Abu Jreis, Mazbal al-Baqar in the direction of Jubb al-Jarrah and Maksar al-Hisan villages in Homs’ northeastern countryside, while another unit prevented terrorists from sneaking from Akrab to al-Taouna village in al-Houleh area in the northwestern countryside.
Hama
Units of the army , supported by the army air force, raided dens of the Takfiri terrorist organizations in the countryside of the central Hama province.
The army air force carried out a number of airstrikes against dens and positions of the terrorist organizations in al-Rahjan village, 50 km to the east of Hama city.
A number of terrorists were killed and others were injured in the airstrikes, in addition to destroying a number of vehicles equipped with heavy machineguns and an amount of various types of arms and ammunition.
A number of the ISIS terrorists were also killed and others were injured and their vehicles and ammunition were destroyed in a series of airstrikes against their positions in al-Salamyieh countryside.
Meanwhile, an army unit killed 5 terrorists and destroyed two of their vehicles with all the arms and ammunition inside them in special operations against their positions in the southwestern countryside of the province.
Units of the army established full control over the southern Aqrab hill and advanced from the eastern and northern axes, the Hills axis, the western entrance, and the eastern neighborhood or what is called Haret Beit Jbaili.
30 terrorists who were positioned inside a den near the town’s mosque were killed and large quantities of their weapons destroyed.
Idleb
The army air force raided the terrorist organizations’ gatherings and the movements in the villages of Bezait, Janet al-Qura, Bashlamoun in Jisr al-Shughour, killing a number of terrorists and destroying their machineguns-equipped vehicles.
The army air strikes targeted the terrorist organizations’ hideouts to the north of Kafer Moussa village, Kansafra and al-Tamanaa town in the southern countryside of Idleb province, killing a number of their members.
The army air force also raided terrorist organizations’ gatherings in Abu al-Duhour and the villages surrounding Abu al-Duhour Airport, Ta’aum town in the eastern countryside of the province, killing and injuring a number of their members.
Meanwhile, the terrorist organizations admitted on their social media websites the killing of a number of their members, among them the so-called “Leader of Siham al-Haq”, affiliated to the so-called “al-Sham Legion” , nicknamed Mazen Qassoum.
Damascus Countryside
The army air force destroyed dens of terrorist organizations in Khirbet Khamam, Martabiyeh and Qmmit Halima in al-Qalamoun mountains in Damascus Countryside.
Terrorists were killed and their vehicles and weapons were destroyed during the operations.
In the eastern al-Ghouta, army units destroyed a mortar base and killed a number of terrorists in Ein Tarma and destroyed a number of terrorists’ hideouts in Erbin, Harasta, Douma city and Zamalka.
