Alwaght- Syrian forces have achieved major advances in their military operations against ISIS terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs.
According to the country's news agency, SANA, army units continued their successful military operations in the eastern countryside of Homs, establishing control over an area in a front that is 12 km long and 4 km deep north of Mannnoukh village on the outskirts of Jebb al-Jarrah area, inflicting heavy losses upon ISIS terrorists in personnel and equipment.
Additionally, Syrian and Russian air forces carried out on Friday intensive sorties against sites for ISIS terrorist organization in Deir Ezzor, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and arms.
The military source said that Syrian and Russian air forces launched airstrikes on gatherings and fortifications of ISIS terrorists, destroying munitions, positions and vehicles for them in al-Thurdeh valley, the surroundings of al-Panorama area, the graveyards and al-Rishdiyeh neighborhood in Deir Ezzor city and al-Bugheilieh and Ayyash villages in the western countryside.
Meanwhile, Syrian forces established control over the villages of Salba, Rasm al-Mazare’, Zanouba, Tweina, Hesso, Mkeimen Shamali, Mkeimen Janoubi, Tibet Dkeij and Jeb al-Abyad in the eastern countryside of Salamiya area in Hama province.
A military source told SANA that many of the terrorists were killed and several vehicles equipped with machineguns were destroyed during the military operations, adding that engineering units combed the area to dismantle the explosives and mines planted by terrorists in an attempt to hinder the advance of the army towards the axes they escape to in al-Uqeirbat area.
This comes after Syria's UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said Friday that ISIS terrorist group will likely be wiped out of Syria by the end of October.
The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, with the government of President Bashar al Assad blaming some Western states, especially the US and their regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, of backing Takfiri terrorists wreaking havoc in the country.
