RNA - The Syrian army soldiers engaged in a tough battle with a group of ISIL terrorists that tried to attack the government forces in the Southeastern direction of Homs desert from the Northeastern direction of Aweiraz Dam, killing and wounding a number of terrorists and destroying their military equipment.
The army fended off the attack and forced the remaining pockets of ISIL to retreat from the battlefield.
Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over the past 24 hours.
Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.
Homs
The Syrian Army units, backed up by the country's Air Force, managed to repel a heavy ISIL attack in the Eastern deserts of Homs on Monday, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.
The army soldiers engaged in a tough battle with a group of ISIL terrorists that tried to attack the government forces in the Southeastern direction of Homs desert from the Northeastern direction of Aweiraz Dam, killing and wounding a number of terrorists and destroying their military equipment.
The army further warded off the attack and forced the remaining pockets of ISIL to retreat from the battlefield.
In the meantime, the fighter jets pounded ISIL's positions and movements in the depth of the joint border between Deir Ezzur and Homs and near Aweiraz Dam and T2 Oil Pumping Station and in the Eastern desert of the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), imposing heavy casualties on the militants.
Deir Ezzur
The Syrian Army forwarded a large number of fresh soldiers and military hardware to Deir Ezzur province near the border with Iraq on Monday to counter ISIL's threats.
The army sent hundreds of fresh forces and more military equipment to Southeastern Deir Ezzur on the Western banks of the Euphrates River to reinvigorate its combat capabilities to counter ISIL terrorists.
In the meantime, field sources said that the army sent its forces, deployed in Lattakia, Idlib and Hama to Deir Ezzur, including to Albu Kamal region.
They said that the army's move came after ISIL's recent attacks on the army to advance on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River and seize control over border regions with Iraq.
Meantime, the US-led coalition's artillery units launched fresh attacks against Deir Ezzur province in Syria again with unconventional arms, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Monday.
SOHR reported that the coalition's artillery units opened heavy fire on Eastern Deir Ezzur using phosphorous shells that set ablaze the targeted areas.
Idlib
The Syrian Army's artillery and missile units opened heavy fire at terrorists' positions and movements in Hama and Idlib provinces on Monday after militants targeted the army in the demilitarized zone.
According to Fars News Agancy, Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) and the Turkistani Islamic Party, deployed in the demilitarized zone, launched mortar attack on the army in the small towns of Jourin and Ma'an in Northern Hama.
In the meantime, Tahrir al-Sham opened fire at the army's strongholds in the villages of Tal Bazam, Ma'an and Abu Dali in Southeastern Idlib.
The army's artillery and missile units, in response, targeted heavily terrorists' movements and positions in the small town of al-Latamina in Northern Hama, and in the village of Skeik in Southeastern Idlib, inflicting major losses on the militants.
Turkey has thus far been unsuccessful in expelling terrorists from the demilitarized zone that stretches from Northeastern Lattakia, to Western and Southeastern Idlib, Northwestern Hama and Western Aleppo.
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