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Provinces, SANA- The army and armed forces on Friday continued it mission in combating terrorism establishing control over new villages, killing big numbers of terrorists and destroying their equipment all over the country.
Homs
The Syrian Arab Army’s Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS positions in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Homs province, a military source told SANA.
The source said that the Air Force destroyed ISIS hideouts in the town of Mahin and al-Qaryatain city 85km southeast of Homs city, killing a number of terrorists and destroying machinegun-equipped vehicles.
The Air Force also carried out sorties targeting ISIS positions in Palmyra (Tadmur) city 161km east of Homs city, killing and injuring many terrorists and destroying some of their vehicles and military equipment.
Aleppo
The Syrian Arab Army’s Air Force carried out airstrikes on terrorist organizations’ hideouts and fortified positions in the countryside of Aleppo province, a military source told SANA.
The source said the airstrikes focused on hotspots and vehicles of ISIS terrorists in al-Sheikh Ahmad village, Abu Hinna hill, Ahmar hill, the surroundings of the Air Force Academy, and Kwairis Janoubi in the province’s eastern countryside.
The airstrikes also resulted in killing and injuring many terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups affiliated to it and destroying some of their machinegun-equipped vehicles in al-Jaberiye, Khan Touman, al-Mefelsa, Oum Arkyilla, al-Ameriye, Rasm al-Abd, east of the thermal station, and east of al-Safira in the eastern and northeastern countryside.
The source added that the Air Force destroyed hotspots of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and other terrorist organizations in al-Rashidin 4 and Bani Zeid neighborhoods in Aleppo city.
Hama
Army units, backed by the Syrian air force, established full control over al-Sefsafeh village in northwestern countryside of Hama province after inflicting heavy losses on the terrorists in personnel and equipment, a military source told SANA on Friday.
The army operations in the village destroyed the last hideout and gatherings for Jabhat al-Nusra and the so called “Jaish al-Fateh” terrorists in addition to a number of vehicles equipped with heavy machine-guns.
Daraa
An army unit killed and injured all group members of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists at the eastern side of al-Nuaimeh center in the eastern countryside of Daraa province.
Later on the day, an army unit targeted terrorists’ concentrations in al-Naziheen Camp in Daraa al-Balad area in Daraa city, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying their ammunition and vehicles.
Other army units destroyed a pickup truck along with the terrorists on board on the road between the meteorology department and al-Sad in Daraa al-Balad, in addition to eliminating a number of terrorists east of Jeleen town in the province’s western countryside and near the entrance of Atman town in the northern countryside.
Lattakia
Army units seized 3 field hospitals and scores of terrorists’ redoubts including a DShK machinegun, home-made “hell canons”, 5 mortars, 20 gas cylinders prepared for bombing during combing the hills surrounding Jeb al-Zaarour and al-Fark mountain in the northern countryside of Lattakia province.
Large amounts of explosives, different ammunition, Turkish and stolen medicine in addition to a quantity of Cocaine were also seized.
