Alwaght- Syrian forces have killed a senior commander of the Takfiri Ajnad al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group following fierce clashes in Syria’s northern province of Halab or Aleppo.
Samir Shartah, also known as Mohammad Kafrouma, was killed on Thursday when Syrian soldiers and pro-government popular defense groups closed in on the extremists in Duwayr al-Zaytoun village, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.
Shartah reportedly served as the military leader of the Ajnad al-Sham terror group, which joined the foreign-sponsored militant alliance of Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) on March 24, 2015, and took part in the onslaught on Idlib then.
The development came only a day after a senior commander of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front militant group was killed in the same Syrian province.
While some reports said Abu Abdullah Jabal, who led Nusra Front operations against the strategic al-Eis town and Khan Tuman village southwest of Aleppo, was killed in a Russian aerial attack, other reports said that the terrorist commander lost his life in a bomb attack during a meeting with close aides.
Meanwhile, - Four civilians were killed and four others were injured in terrorist rocket attacks on residential neighborhoods in Aleppo city on Thursday.
A source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA reporter that terrorists targeted al-Khalidiyeh and al-Neel Street neighborhoods with a number of rocket shells, claiming the lives of four civilians, including a baby girl, and injuring four others.
The terrorist attacks, according to the source, caused material damage to the citizen’s houses and properties.
Elsewhere, the Syrian Army Air Force continued sorties against ISIS terrorists’ gatherings and axes of infiltration in the western countryside of Raqqa.
A military source said Thursday that the Air Force destroyed vehicles of ISIS terrorists, some of which equipped with machineguns, and killed many of the terrorists in the sorties targeted their gatherings to the south of al-Tabaqa city in the western countryside of the province.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has so far claimed the lives of nearly half a million people, over one million injured and an estimated 12.5 million now displaced.
Syrian government says terrorists in the country are backed by the US and its regional allies including the Israeli regime, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
