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Army Regains Control of More Areas in Homs

Rasa - The Syrian army continued its advances in Homs, and captured more strategic regions in the province.

News ID: 429921

Date: 27 May 2017 - 22:44

RNA - The army units drove the ISIL terrorists out of key areas and their surrounding areas in Homs province.

The Syrian troops inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists in fierce clashes over controlling of strategic regions. They also destroyed military equipment of the terrorists.

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

Homs

Fields sources confirmed on Friday that the Syrian Army forces engaged in clashes with terrorists in Southern and Eastern Homs and managed to retake control over vast regions after inflicting major losses on the militants.

The sources said that the army soldiers engaged in though battle with terrorists in Palmyra battlefield in Eastern Homs and also in Southern Homs and drove terrorists completely out of the Southern territories of Homs, shaking hands with their comrades that had started their anti-terrorism operation from Saba'a Bayar region and had advanced towards Northern Damascus.

The sources went on to say that the army forces that arrived in Saba'a Bayar managed to take control over 5,000 sq/km of land.

Another military source said that the army troops and their supporting forces pushed terrorists back from al-Mahaseh region and several hills in its surrounding areas that connect Eastern Homs to Eastern Qalamoun.

Deir Ezzur

Local sources in the Eastern city of Deir Ezzur confirmed that a large number of ISIL terrorists were killed and several others were wounded after a long tunnel of the militants was discovered and detonated by the Syrian Army Forces.

The army men discovered a 25-meter long and 1m-wide tunnel of ISIL in al-Movazafin neighborhood of Deir Ezzur city and detonated it, killing a large number of terrorists and destroying one of their gathering centers.

Meantime, the Syrian Air Force carried out several combat flights over ISIL's defense lines and movements in the Southwestern outskirts of Deir Ezzur city, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

The army aircraft bombed heavily ISIL's concentration centers and movements in Badiyeh (desert) 37, Panorama farms and al-Hajif region, killing and wounding a number of militants and destroying their equipment.

In the meantime, sources in Homs province said that after the army's eye-catching advances from Eastern Homs to Eastern Qalamoun and taking control over 5,000 sq/km of land, the ISIL faced collapse of its front in the region and started to set fire at its military vehicles and equipment before pulling back its forces from the battlefield.

Damascus

The Syrian Army troops continued their anti-ISIL operations in Northeastern Damascus, stretching their chain of security around the strategic al-Seen military airport, informed sources said.

The sources reported that the army troops continued to advance against terrorists affiliated to Ahmad Abdou and Jeish al-Islam in Eastern Qalamoun, laying siege on the terrorists in the region.

They added that recent advances of the army soldiers in Eastern Qalamoun killed the terrorist groups' chances for penetrating into Badiyeh (desert) al-Sham and Badiyeh Homs to threaten al-Seen airbase.

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