Syria in Last 24 Hours:

Army Imposes Control over 70% of Key Region in Southern Damascus

Rasa - The ISIL terrorists were driven out of seventy percent of a strategic region in the Southern part of Damascus by the Syrian army.

News ID: 437521

Date: 06 May 2018 - 20:41

RNA - The army men continued to storm the ISIL's strongholds in several flanks in Hajar al-Aswad region and Yarmouk Camp and managed to advance against them.

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.

Damascus

The Syrian Army managed to impose full control over the Southern part of Hajar al-Aswad region on Saturday, driving ISIL out of 70 percent of the terrorist-held regions in the Southern part of Damascus province.

The army men continued to storm ISIL's strongholds in several flanks in Hajar al-Aswad region and Yarmouk Camp and managed to advance against them.

Also, the army's artillery and missile units pounded heavily the positions of the remaining pockets of the terrorists in Yarmouk Camp, Hajar al-Aswad and in al-Zobeir area in al-Tazamon neighborhood, inflicting heavy casualties on the militants.

The entire Southern part of Hajar al-Aswad region came under the control of the army after the government forces captured Power Plan and al-Qods School North of Cemetery region.

Almost seventy percent of the terrorist-held regions in the Southern part of Damascus province has been liberated and the army is operating now in the Northern part of Hajar al-Aswad.

Aleppo

The Turkish Army arrested a sum of 3,000 civilians in Afrin ever since it occupied the city in Northwestern Aleppo and transferred them to different locations, a Kurdish media outlet reported on Saturday.

Hawar news quoted well-informed sources in Shih region in Afrin as reporting that the army has taken into captivity a sum of 3,000 civilians in several villages in Shih and transferred them to the village of Mirkan in Mobata region.

Hawar news further said that some of the jailed civilians have been transferred to the village of Qarmitlaq and some others have been sent to Turkey to be kept in detention centers there.

It further said that the captured civilians have been tortured severely by the army and its allied militants, adding that the Turkish soldiers have been shooting around blindfolded captives to scare them.

In the meantime, a local source on Bolboleh region said that the Ankara-backed militants have forced villagers in Khalika to leave their houses to replace them with almost 2,000 militants and their family members that had left Douma region in Damascus province under an evacuation agreement with the Syrian Army.

The source further said that the Ankara-backed militants have been forcing men and women in the villages of Shirwa and Bolboleh region to carry out hard jobs, including digging trenches and cooking food and serving the militants.

Raqqa

A vehicle of Kurdish militias blasted after it ran over a roadside bomb in the Northeastern province of Raqqa, leaving a number of the gunmen dead or wounded on Saturday.

According to Fars News Agency, two Kurdish fighters were killed and several more were wounded after their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb on the road connecting Raqqa city to the village of Solouk in  Northern Raqqa.

In the meantime, field sources reported that tens of young people in the town of Tabaqa in Western Raqqa have been detained by the Kurdish militias who continue exercising forced recruitment in the region.

The sources further said that the Kurdish militias also staged an attack on the dissident population in al-Romeileh neighborhood in Raqqa city, injuring several people. The Kurdish militias' forced recruitment and tax levying in Raqqa in the last several months has enraged citizens who take to the streets in protest to show their opposition to the presence of the militias in their city.

Elsewhere, they said the dead bodies of 50 civilians were found under the debris of a building in al-Qatar neighborhood in Raqqa city, adding that the civilians had been killed in the US-led coalition airstrikes.

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