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Army Inflicts Heavy Losses on Terrorists in Homs Province

Rasa - The Syrian army hit hard the terrorists' military positions and hardware in different parts of Homs province.

News ID: 426233

Date: 02 January 2017 - 19:36

RNA - The Syrian army hit hard the terrorists' military positions and hardware in different parts of Homs province.

The terrorists sustained heavy losses in the Syrian army's artillery attacks.

The Syrian army also continued its advances in other key provinces across Syria.

Homs

The Syrian Army troops targeted ISIL terrorists' movements and gatherings in six different regions in Eastern Homs, inflicting tens of casualties on the militants.

The army soldiers hit ISIL's concentration centers hard in the villages and towns of Arsouneh, East of Tiyas, East of Station 4, Ba'ar al-Wa'erah, near Qasr al-Hayer and in Eastern side of al-Quaryatayn, killing and wounding tens of militants and destroying their armored vehicles.

Reports said earlier on Sunday that Russian fighter jets targeted a convoy of ISIL's fuel tankers transferring fuel from Homs to Raqqa, destroying several tankers.

The fighter jets targeted the ISIL's fuel tankers near the towns of al-Sukhnah and Arak in Eastern Homs, destroying several tankers.

The tankers convoy was heading to ISIL-held regions in Raqqa.

A number of ISIL militants were killed in the air raid.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian fighter jets carried out several combat sorties over ISIL's gatherings and concentration centers near the Eastern city of Deir Ezzur, killing or wounding a number of terrorists.

The warplanes targeted the movements and centers of ISIL in Panorama region in the Southern part of Deir Ezzur city in continued air raids, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

Also, the army aircraft pounded ISIL's defense lines in al-Thardah mountain Southeast of Deir Ezzur and in areas near Deir Ezzur's airbase, inflicting heavy casualties on the militants.

The army soldiers that had repelled several attacks of ISIL on their positions in recent days, and stormed the militants' gatherings and movements in different parts of the province.

Damascus

Syrian army troops intensified attacks on Fatah al-Sham Front (previously known as the al-Nusra Front) in Western Ghouta.

The Syrian army's missile units opened heavy fire at Fatah al-Sham's positions in Wadi a-Bardi region, while other units of the army engaged in fierce clashes with the militants in Wadi Basimeh and al-Hosseiniyeh.

In the meantime, the army choppers hit Fatah al-Sham's defense lines in the villages and towns of Basimeh, al-Basatin, al-Ziniyeh and al-Hosseiniyeh.

A military source said that the army with the cooperation of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has paved the way for the safe evacuation of civilians from bazaar in Wadi a-Bardi town to safer regions, adding the army tries to increase pressure on the terrorists to force them to surrender.

Sources privy to terrorist groups disclosed that differences are widening among members of Al-Nusra Front (that recently renamed to Fatah al-Sham), adding that a part of Nusra members want to join peace agreement with Damascus but another part stand against such moves.

The disagreement comes as the ceasefire does not include Al-Nusra and ISIL.

Idlib

Militants continue to transfer infrastructures and government properties in Idlib province to the Turkish market to sell them there at very low prices, news websites affiliated to terrorists disclosed.

The websites reported that militants have disassembled the railway between the stations of Mahambel and Bashmaroun by bulldozers and have transferred them to Turkey on heavy trucks to sell them in the Turkish market at very low prices.

Another militant-affiliated website disclosed that unknown people have been stealing the vehicles of the Red Crescent in Idlib in recent days.

The website added that at least eight vehicles have been stolen and two warehouses of the country's Red Crescent have been ransacked by unknown individuals.

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