Alwaght- Syrian army backed by popular forces have liberated a village in the western province of Homs from ISIS terrorist group.
According to Syria’s official news agency SANA, Syrian troops and their allies wrested control over Sharifa village, situated about 60 kilometers west of the ancient Semitic city of Palmyra, on Friday following intense clashes with ISIS terrorists.
SANA added that scores of terrorists were killed and their military equipment destroyed during the fierce exchanges of gunfire.
Separately, Syrian government forces and their allies clashed with foreign-sponsored militants near the capital Damascus.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear who had started the clashes in the Wadi Barada region.
“Clashes erupted and are continuing... in Wadi Barada Valley near Damascus, with helicopters firing on positions belonging to the rebels and Fateh al-Sham Front," the head of the Britain-based observatory Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Syrian government says Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front and a Salafist terrorist organization, is excluded from the ongoing ceasefire in the violence-wracked Arab country.
Syrian Army soldiers and fighters from popular defense groups launched a major offensive on December 23 to recapture Wadi Barada after terrorists refused to surrender and leave the mountainous area near the Lebanese border.
