Army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over Tal Mamo hill and the two villages of Birawi and Azizit Samaan in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, after eliminating the last remaining gatherings of terrorists in them, a military source told SANA.
The source said the army also targeted terrorists’ concentrations and movements in the village of Khalsa and south of Qarasi village in the province’s southern countryside, in addition to destroying machinegun-equipped vehicles.
Also The Syrian Air Force carried out a series of sorties which targeted terrorists’ vehicles and hideouts in Kafr Zeta, Atshan, and Tal A’as in Hama’s northern countryside.
Meanwhile, field sources says that an army unit killed more than 8 terrorists and injured 13 others from the so called “al-Jabha al-Shamiyeh” terrorist group in Maakraba village in Hama countryside and destroyed their vehicles and different launchers which they used in targeting the safe areas in Mahardeh countryside.
According to some sources in the neighboring province of Idleb, heavy losses were inflicted upon terrorists in personnel and equipment in army operations against their hideouts in Saraqeb city in the province,the field sources added.
Army units destroyed a headquarters for the so called “Jund al-Aqsa” terrorists in a special operation against their positions in Khan Sheikhoun , 70km south of Idleb city.
Syrian Air Force carried out concentrated strikes on ISIS hideouts in the surroundings of Maheen and Hawarin villages in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo province.
The source said that the airstrikes resulted in destroying ISIS concentrations and vehicles along with weapons and equipment, adding that the Air Force also targeted ISIS gatherings and fortified sites east of Palmyra (Tadmur), Arak, and Khanifis in the province’s eastern countryside, which resulted in destroying a number of machinegun-equipped vehicles.
The Syrian army also killed 58 ISIS terrorists and injured dozens others in Nasib Daghim, al-Zira’a and Hwejat al- Mara’iayeh in Deir Ezzor province.
Earlier in the day, the Syrian army air force conducted air strikes against gatherings of ISIS terrorists in the two villages of Merie’yeh and al-Jafra in the countryside of Deir Ezzor province.
An army unit clashed with terrorist groups infiltrated to the surrounding of a number of military points in the eastern side al-Manshiyeh neighborhood in Draaa city, leaving many terrorists dead and injured while the others fled, the military source added.
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