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Syrian Army Strikes Terrorist Positions Across Country

Sunday 29 May 2016
Syrian Army Strikes Terrorist Positions Across Country

Alwaght- Syrian forces have carried out successful operations against terrorists on Sunday by striking their positions in various areas across the war-torn country.

In Homs province, the Syrian army’s air force carried out sorties against ISIS terrorists’ dens in al-Sukhneh town and to the east of it and in the villages of Taiba, Enq al-Hawa, Abu al-Hawadeed in the eastern countryside of the western province.

A military source said that the sorties inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorists in personnel and weaponry and destroyed vehicles loaded with weapons and others equipped with machineguns.

The air force also destroyed supply lines of ISIS and vehicles equipped with machineguns in sorties targeted the movements of the terrorists in Rahoum village to the east of Homs city.

An army unit destroyed 4 vehicles loaded with weapons belonging to ISIS in al-Bardah area in the southeast countryside of Homs.

Meanwhile in neighboring Hama province, Syrian Army units clashed at dawn with terrorist groups from al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and al-Shamia Front that attacked military posts in the directions of Tal Bzam, Tal Huweir and to the east of Morek.

The clashes ended with thwarting the assault, where at least 35 terrorists were killed and a 57mm machine gun, a rocket launcher and 6 vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed.

In the eastern countryside of Hama, an army unit repelled an ISIS attack on army posts in the vicinity of al-Saan-Atherya road, killing 9 ISIS terrorists and destroying a vehicle equipped with a machine gun.

Elsewhere, the Syrian air force also carried out intensive sorties on the gatherings and hideouts of ISIS terrorists in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city.

The sorties targeted ISIS terrorists in the vicinity of Tharda Mountain near the military airport and south and east of Panorama area on the southwestern sides of Deir Ezzor city.

ISIS terrorists suffered heavy losses as their various machineguns-equipped vehicles were destroyed in the airstrikes.

According to UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, more than 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which has also displaced over half of the country’s population of about 23 million.

Syrian blames the United States and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for conducting a proxy war by supporting terrorists to topple the legitimate government in Damascus.

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