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Army Establishes Full Control over Key Military Airport in Aleppo Province

Rasa - The Syrian army managed to restore full security over a strategic military airport in Eastern Aleppo.

News ID: 428432

Date: 26 March 2017 - 21:28

RNA - The Kuweires military airport in now fully secured after the Syrian army took control over villages and strategic heights there.

The Syrian army also advanced in other key provinces across Syria.

Aleppo

The Syrian army could establish full security at Kuweires military airport after liberating tens of towns, villages and strategic heights in Eastern Aleppo.

A military source said that full security has prevailed in the airbase and the army's positions in Eastern Aleppo for the first time since 2014 after the strategic city of Deir Hafer was won back from the ISIL terrorists earlier today.

The army has managed to seize control of over 170 towns and villages and tens of strategic heights from the ISIL since the start of its military operations in Eastern Aleppo in January 2017.

The Syrian army forces had completed their siege over Deir Hafer on Friday and liberated the city earlier on Saturday.

The army units started massive and heavy attacks against the terrorists in Deir Hafer region from the two Northern and Southern directions, and liberated the two towns of Jeni al-Salameh and Um al-Mara near Um Adaseh and Khalileh towns just to the East of Deir Hafer on Friday.

All supply routes of the terrorist group in the region had been blocked on Friday.

Deir Ezzur

The ISIL has been reported to be detaining and executing a large number of its forces in Deir Ezzur city after several militants and commanders defected the terrorist group.

The websites affiliated to the terrorists reported that the ISIL has executed 4 ISIL members in al-Asharah town in Deir Ezzur under the pretext that they have escaped battle and opened fire on their comrades.

The terrorist group has also executed 8 of its foreign members who wanted to defect the ISIL at al-Maqas checkpoint in Deir Ezzur in the Southern entrance of Raqqa province.

The ISIL erected a large number of checkpoints in Bu Kamal city in Eastern Deir Ezzur after several of its commanders and members fled the area.

Hama

The Syrian army troops launched massive operations against al-Nusra (Fatah al-Sham) Front in Northern Hama and regained control of lost lands.

The last group of terrorists stationed in Shizar village in Northwestern Hama was annihilated in the army operation and their vehicles and military equipment were destroyed.

Shizar village was liberated after the operations by the government forces.

Meantime, the Syrian army units engaged in heavy clashes with the terrorists who had entered the villas in Kafr al-Toun region, killing and wounding a large number of militants.

The remaining terrorists left their weapons and ammunition in the battleground and fled the scene.

Also, the engineering units of the army started the demining operations in the region after its liberation.

Damascus

The Syrian troops fended off a series of offensives by al-Nusra (Fatah al-Sham) Front terrorists to break the siege on their comrades in al-Ma'amel (plants) region and regained control of all occupied areas in Northern Jobar.

The Syrian army units smashed the last remaining bases and gathering centers of the terrorists in al-Ma'amel region in Northern Jobar and won back control of all points and blocks occupied by the terrorists between Jobar and al-Qaboun regions as well as the textile and weaving factories.

The victories were gained after heavy clashes with the terrorists.

The army's artillery and missile units also targeted the militants' positions near the textile and weaving factories with heavy fire.

Raqqa

The predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), fighting the ISIL within the framework of the Euphrates Rage Operation, reached al-Tabaqa dam and won control of several villages.

Jeihan Sheikh Ahmad, the Euphrates Rage Operation spokesman, said that the SDF forces arrived in the strategic dam after heavy clashes with the ISIL militants in the Western parts of Raqqa.

They continued to advance in the region and gained control of 8 villages and a large number of farms in the Western coasts of the Euphrates river after killing and wounding tens of ISIL terrorists.

Other sources also reported that the SDF forces have started offensives against the ISIL in al-Tabaqa city.

Meantime, Talal Salou, the SDF forces' spokesman, said that the army forces can also join the operations to liberate Raqqa.

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