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Army Makes New Gains in Aleppo Province

Rasa - The Syrian army continued its military operations in Southeastern Aleppo by purging terrorists from more strategic regions.

News ID: 434581

Date: 04 November 2017 - 16:24

RNA - The army units drove back the ISIL terrorists from key regions in Southeastern Aleppo after destroying the defense lines of terrorists there.

The Syrian troops killed several terrorists and injured many more in fierce clashes over controlling of the strategic regions. They also destroyed military equipment of the terrorists.

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

Aleppo

The Syrian Army troops engaged in fierce clashes with Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) on Friday and drove them out of three regions in Southeastern Aleppo.

The army men clashed fiercely with Al-Nusra and imposed full control over the villages of Hajara Kabira, Hajara Saqira and Jubb Awaz Southwest of the town of Khanasser.

A Russian media outlet reported earlier that the army's engineering units discovered a depot of Italy-made landmines during their clean up operation in Aleppo province.

The Arabic-language website of RT quoted the commander of engineering units as reporting that they found 30 landmines made in Italy and a number of hand-made rockets in terrorist groups' positons in the town of Um Adas and its surrounding areas.

RT further said that the region where the army men found the Italy-made landmines was occupied by the terrorists over three years ago, adding that C4 explosive material has been used in the landmines that is more powerful than TNT.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian military sources confirmed on Friday that Deir Ezzur city, the biggest in the country's East and the last stronghold of the ISIL terrorist group, has fully come under government control.

After the three-year-long siege of Deir Ezzur was broken on September 5, the Syrian government forces announced on Friday that they have cleared the city from last ISIL fighters, which marks another key defeat for the terrorist group, which has recently lost most of the territory it occupied in Iraq and Syria in 2014, Sputnik reported.

Earlier a news service run by the Syrian army's ally Hezbollah had reported that the Syrian army gained control of al-Hamidiyeh, Sheikh Yassin, al-Arzi and al-Roshdiyeh districts, and prepared to enter the final district held by terrorists.

Hama

Militant-affiliated websites reported on Friday that hundreds of Chinese terrorists trained by the Turkish intelligence officers have arrived in Northern Hama after intensifying clashes between the Syrian Army and Al-Nusra Front.

The websites reported that hundreds of militants of al-Sini (Chinese) al-Turkistani terrorist group have deployed in Northern Hama.

The websites added that the newly-arrived terrorists have been equipped with the most modern weapons, adding that the terrorists have been trained by the Turkish intelligence service to join war on the Syrian army in the provinces of Lattakia, Idlib and Hama.

In the meantime, field sources reported that tens of Chinese terrorists have been killed in clashes with the army men in Northern Hama in the last few days.

Hasaka

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) drove 4,000 Iraqi refugees out of a camp in Hasaka towards regions that are still under ISIL's control amid crisis between Baghdad and Iraqi Kurds, a human right official said on Friday.

Ali Bayati, one of the members of Iraq's Supreme Independent Human Rights Commission, said that the SDF that is in control of al-Houl refugee camp in Hasaka province in Northeastern Syria has forced 4,000 Iraqi refugees to leave the camp for a region that is very near to ISIL's defense lines.

Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported on Tuesday that the SDF evacuated almost 130 families of ISIL terrorists from Deir Ezzur and Raqqa provinces to militant-held regions in Idlib province.

SOHR reported that 127 families of ISIL terrorists have been transferred from SDF-held regions to Idlib city and its countryside.

It added that most of the families were in Raqqa province and the rest of them were from Deir Ezzur, adding that the ISIL families were transferred by the SDF from Raqqa and Deir Ezzur to Afrin region in Western Aleppo that was under the Kurds' control and were later sent to regions that were under the control of the Al-Nusra Front in Western Aleppo and at the last stage to Idlib province.

In the meantime, some analysts pointed to the SDF and ISIL's repeated agreements based on which the ISIL's foreign commanders had the right to move to Turkey to return to their countries via a safe routes.

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