Army units establish control over the strategic Jahar junction in Palmyra countryside

Provinces, SANA- Army and Armed Forces units continued on Thursday carrying out their operations against terrorist organizations, restoring control of new areas in Homs and killing scores of ISIS in Deir Ezzor.

Deir Ezzor

Army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, thwarted ISIS terrorists’ groups attack on military posts in the surrounding of Deir Ezzor city.

SANA reporter in the province said that the army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces and covered by fires of the air force, clashed with ISIS terrorist groups while attempting to attack a number of military posts in the surrounding of Deir Ezzor airport and Liwa al-Taamin, south of Deir Ezzor city.

The reporter said that the army killed and injured a number of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their weapons and ammunition.

Homs

Army units continued their operations against gatherings and fortifications of ISIS terrorist organization in the eastern countryside of Homs, establishing control over al-Hattaniyeh village and Bir al-Marhatan.

Due to the army’s operations, a large number of ISIS terrorists were killed and three vehicles equipped with machineguns were destroyed.

Earlier, SANA reporter in the province said the army units, backed by the supporting forces, established control over the strategic Jahar strategic intersection to the east of Station 4 on Homs-Palmyra road, after inflicting heavy losses upon the ISIS terrorists in personnel and equipment.

The reporter added that army units expanded control in the western countryside of Palmyra in the course of the continued large-scale operation against ISIS terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs.

The reporter noted that the army units continued their operations and advanced towards al-Beida al-Sharqiyeh village and the road of al-Mahr gas field, hunting fleeing ISIS terrorists and killing many of them.

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