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Province, SANA –Units of the army and armed forces eliminated large numbers of members of the terrorist organizations across the country during military operations against their hideouts and positions.
Hasaka
Army units and the national backup forces in Hasaka city hemmed in ISIS terrorists within narrow areas in neighborhoods into which they infiltrated on Wednesday.
SANA reporter quoted a source in Hasaka province, located in northeastern Syria, as saying that ISIS terrorists were pushed back from large swathes in the neighborhoods of al-Nashwa al-Shari’a and al-Nashwa al-Villat and they were hemmed in within limited areas.
The source added that heavy losses were inflicted upon ISIS terrorists, who had carried out car bomb explosions and committed ugly massacres against civilians in the neighborhoods they infiltrated.
The source noted that large numbers of the terrorists were killed, adding that most of those are of Arab and foreign nationalities.
It referred to the steadfastness of the forces defending the departments of Immigration and Passports and the Central Prison and the Law Enforcement battalion in confronting ISIS terrorists and preventing them from entering other neighborhoods in the city.
The source affirmed to SANA reporter that the neighborhoods of al-Salihiyeh, al-Nafti, Tal Hajar, al-Nasireh, al-Hai al-Askari al-Sina’a, Marshou and the judges and doctors’ housing compounds and central Hasaka city are all “safe”.
Later, a source in the province told SANA’s correspondent that the army and national forces assisting it continued to pursue the remaining ISIS terrorists in Hasaka city, eliminating more than 40 terrorists in Ghuwayran neighborhood, most of them of Arab nationalities, and destroying large quantities of their weapons and ammo.
The source added that scores of ISIS terrorists fled in the direction of al-Villat al-Homr neighborhood, and they are currently being deal with.
An Army unit destroyed a car bomb in the area surrounding the sheep market while terrorists from ISIS were attempting to drive it to al-Nashwa al-Gharbia neighborhood in Hasaka city.
Many of the locals have returned to their homes thanks to the steadfastness of the army and the national forces fighting on its side in Hasaka.
Homs
Meanwhile, a military source said units of the army and the armed forces clashed with terrorists in the villages of Sallam Gharbi and al-Sultaniyeh and to the north of al-Tarfawi village who attempted to launch an attack on the locals of Abu al-Alaya village, 45 km to the east of Homs City.
Many terrorists were killed in the clashes and others were injured and their arms and ammunition were destroyed.
Army units destroyed two vehicles belonging to ISIS terrorists that were equipped with heavy machineguns, in addition to killing scores of the terrorists, in al-Bayarat area to the west of Palmyra city.
The air force targeted gatherings of ISIS terrorists in Palmyra city, Tal al-Waer and al-Kadim in the eastern countryside of Homs, leaving many of them dead and their weapons destroyed.
To the north of Homs City, an army unit destroyed dens of terrorist organizations, killing scores of their members and injuring others, in al-Zahabiyeh village in Talbiseh area.
More terrorists were killed in air strikes on their dens and vehicles in al-Zafaraniyeh al-Sharqiyeh and al-Rastan to the north of Homs. Several vehicles were destroyed in the air strikes as well.
Hama
In the neighboring Hama province, the army air force killed dozens of terrorists and destroyed their vehicles in Salim, al-Quneitirat, Eaidoun, al-Jammaleh and al-Hdaj in the countryside.
The army air force targeted gatherings of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their hideouts at the junction of Zakiyeh village and to the east of Atheria village in the countryside.
Idleb
In northern Syrian, the army air force destroyed dens and vehicles of terrorist organizations and killed dozens of their members in Abu al-Dohour, al-Mjas, Ihsem and Shnan in the countryside of the northern Idleb province.
The army killed members of two terrorist groups in Tal al-Sahn and Tal Ghazal in Idleb countryside and destroyed a vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun.
Aleppo
Army units carried out intensive operations in which they targeted terrorists’ hideouts and supply routes in Hreitan, Harbal, Babens and Azaz in northern Aleppo province.
The operations, a military source said, resulted in killing many terrorists and destroying their vehicles with all weapons and ammunition they carried.
The army also inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorists in al-Mansoura village, 10 km to the west of Aleppo city, while a number of terrorists were killed during an operation to the west of Khanaser town in the southern countryside of Aleppo province.
The source also told SANA that army units targeted positions of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the neighborhoods of al-Rashidin, Maisar and Karam Qatraji in the city of Aleppo, leaving many of them killed.
Operations in the surroundings of the Air Force Academy, located to the east of Aleppo city, continued with more ISIS terrorists getting targeted and killed there.
Daraa
The army targeted movements of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Kafr Nasej town in the northwestern countryside of the southern Daraa province.
Two vehicles with terrorists on board were destroyed in the operations.
More terrorists were killed or injured and their arms were destroyed during a special army operation against their dens in al-Mleiheh al-Sharqiyeh town in the northeastern countryside of the province.
An army unit also killed terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra in accurate operations against their hideouts in various areas in Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in the city of Daraa.
An army unit prevented a terrorist group from infiltrating al-Mahamid farm in Daraa’s eastern countryside, killing and injuring the group’s members.
Quneitra
In the neighboring Quneitra province, army units inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists of the so-called “Jaish al-Haramoun” in the northern countryside of the province.
Jaish al-Haramoun terrorist group includes terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham Movement, Jabal al-Shaikh Brigade, Omar bin al-khattab Brigade.
Damascus Countryside
An army unit destroyed Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists’ hideouts in Khan al-Sheeh farms in the countryside of Damascus.
Lattakia
The Syrian Arab Army’s Air Force carried out airstrikes targeting hideouts and fortifications of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the surroundings of Baradon dam and al-Rawda village in the northern countryside of Lattakia province, killing many terrorists in the process and injuring others.
A military source told SANA that the Air Force also destroyed hideouts and concentrations of terrorists in al-Dura village in the, killing a number of the terrorists, some of them of foreign nationalities.
Sweida
A Syrian Arab Army unit, in cooperation with popular defense groups, repelled an attack by ISIS terrorists on Bouthaina hill in the northeastern countryside of Sweida province.
A military source told SANA that the army unit clashed with the terrorists who attempted to infiltrate Bouthaina hill from the direction of al-Badiye desert, which resulted in killing most of the attacking terrorists, while the remaining ones fled into the depth of the desert.
