Syrian army's missile units and warplanes targeted terrorists' concentration centers in al-Rastan region to pave the ground for the easier advances of the country's army.
Then, Syrian army soldiers launched their heavy attacks on the militants' defense lines to lay cut off their supply lines and lay siege on them.
Terrorists suffered a heavy death toll and pulled back forced from several key positions.
Syrian fighter jets also pounded terrorists' centers in Talbiseh in Northern Homs.
Reports said earlier today that Syrian fighter jets launched a fresh round of combat flights over ISIL's gatherings and military convoys in Eastern Homs, leaving scores of militants' machinegun-equipped vehicles destroyed.
Syrian warplanes' bombardments in oil-rich region of al-Sha'er, third station, Khneifes, Eastern company and Northern Moshrifeh, left scores of ISIL terrorists dead and destroyed at least 13 vehicles.
Syrian army soldiers, for their part, struck a convoy of vehicles of Fatah al-Sham (the newly-formed al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group previously known as the al-Nusra Front) on a road between Talbiseh and Howsh Farhoud in Northern Homs, ending in destruction of two vehicles of militants.
The Syrian Army aircraft also pounded terrorists' vehicles and oil tankers in Southern side of Palmyra, al-Sukhnah, East of Qasr al-Halabat and a road between the villages of al-Khashabiyeh and al-Fasedeh in Eastern Homs.
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