According to the report, insurgent forces suffered heavy blows in the border area as they faced fierce encounter by Syrian troops while attempting establish escape routes to al-Badia and al-Zobdani areas.

In the Damascus outskirts town of al-Maliha meanwhile, Syrian troops inflicted heavy casualties on the armed insurgents by setting off explosives at a building used as a terrorist staging center as well as a weapons depot.

Syrian Army also targeted insurgent staging grounds in Damascus countryside areas of Jasrin and Zobdin with heavy artillery fire, inflicting more losses on the armed militants.

Al-Alam reporter further cites a Syrian military officer as saying that over 50 percent of al-Maliha is now under the control of Syrian forces.

In another Damascus suburban area of Jobar, Army units also targeted insurgent movements in the Borj al-Muallimin region in an effort to disrupt moves to resupply terrorist forces with more weaponry.

Another Syrian military source told Al-Alam reporter that the Jobar region is entirely besieged by Syrian army troops, adding that army units have been targeting insurgent staging grounds in Borj al-Muallimin and have so far killed a large number of terrorists with foreign nationalities.

Government troops are reportedly engaged in heavy battles with the foreign-backed insurgents in Daraa and have killed or injured dozens of them in and around the city.

This is while Syrian forces have reached a ceasefire agreement with insurgent elements in the al-Waar neighborhood of Homs for the holy month of Ramadan.

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