Overwhelmed by the first wave of the Syrian Arab Army’s offensive, the Islamic State terrorists suffered a tremendous amount of casualties, including the loss of several teenage combatants.
 

A military source told Al-Masdar News on Tuesday night that at least 10 of these teenage Islamic State combatants were under the age of 16 Killed.

In addition to killing over 25 ISIS terrorists, the Syrian Armed Forces recaptured all the points they lost around the Al-Haweeqa District’s western sector and Jabal Thardeh.

The Syrian Armed Forces are still on the move in the Deir Ezzor Governorate, as they begin the second day of their imperative offensive near the Euphrates River.

Also Syrian Army Aircraft carried out several combat sorties over ISIL bases in the Southern and Southeastern sides of Deir Ezzur city, inflicting major damage on the terrorists' military vehicles.

The Syrian fighter jets bombed ISIL's positions near al-Murayeh village East of Deir Ezzur South of the Euphrates and al-Jafreh in Southeastern side of the city, which ended in mass destruction of their machinegun-equipped vehicles.

In the meantime, scores of the ISIL terrorists were killed and their military hardware and vehicles were damaged in the Syrian air attacks on the Takfiri group's positions near al-Thardah mountain.

Syrian warplanes on Monday traced and targeted a long convoy of ISIL's military vehicles in Southern Deir Ezzur, destroying most of the columns' vehicles.

The Syrian army aircraft struck ISIL's line of vehicles on a road near al-Thardah mountain, which ended in destruction of most of the groups' cars and killing or wounding of several Takfiri terrorists accompanying the column.

In the meantime, the Syrian Army troops repelled ISIL's offensive to prevail the government forces' positions near al-Thardah Mountain, and forced them to retreat from the battlefield, FNA reports.

The ISIL used several bomb-laden suicide vehicles in the first round of attacks but the army soldiers targeted the entire number of suicide vehicles before they could reach to government positions.  

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