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Army Keeps Rolling on ISIL's Centers in Sweida Deserts

Rasa - The Damascus Army managed to drive the terrorists out of more lands in the Eastern deserts of Sweida over the past 24 hours.

News ID: 439408

Date: 05 September 2018 - 21:29

RNA - The Syrian army engaged in fresh battle with ISIL Northeast of Toloul al-Safa in Eastern desert of Sweida, advancing 7km in the depth of terrorists' positions.

Meantime, field sources reported that the army men have reached at Talal Marati region as terrorists retreated towards the depth of the rocky heights.

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.

Sweida

The Syrian Army men managed to drive ISIL out of more lands in Toloul al-Safa region in the Eastern deserts of Sweida on Tuesday.

The army soldiers engaged in fresh battle with ISIL Northeast of Toloul al-Safa in Eastern desert of Sweida, advancing 7km in the depth of terrorists' positions.

In the meantime, the army's artillery and missile units and aircraft pounded the positions and movements of ISIL in the same region, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

Fields sources, meantime, reported that the army men have reached at Talal Marati region as terrorists retreated towards the depth of the rocky heights.

Earlier reports said that the army units fortified newly-captured positions in the rocks in Toloul al-Safa in the Eastern deserts of Sweida, preparing to drive ISIL out of the last strongholds in Toloul al-Safa.

The army forces have been pounding ISIL's main positions in Toloul al-Safa, destroying a large volume of their weapons and equipment and killing tens of the terrorists, especially their snipers.

In the meantime, a local source reported that the remaining pockets of ISIL in Toloul al-Safa are on the verge of full annihilation, adding that the terrorists have resorted to attacks on army positions to lift the siege and move towards al-Tanf region, but they have thus far failed as the army men, backed up by Air Force, have warded off their offensives.

Idlib

The Syrian Army dispatched more soldiers and military equipment to Northwestern Syria on Tuesday for an imminent large-scale operation against terrorists in Idlib, Hama, Lattakia and Aleppo provinces.

The army sent twenty tanks and BMP vehicles, floating bridges and tens of personnel carriers to the battlefields in Northwestern Syria.

In the meantime, the army's artillery and missile units pounded the positions and movements of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in the village of al-Jabeiryeh and in the town of al-Latamina in Northern Hama, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

Other artillery units opened heavy fire at the movements of al-Turkistani Islamic Party in the small towns of al-Ziyara, al-Mashit, al-Zi'yadiyeh and al-Qarqour in Western al-Ghaab Plain and in the town of Badama in Jisr al-Shughour region in Western Idlib, killing and wounding a number of terrorists.

Lattakia

The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria reported on Tuesday that five bomber drones of the terrorist groups, deployed in Western Idlib, attacked the Syrian Army positions in Northeastern Lattakia.

Commander of the Russian Center Vladimir Savchenko reported that the terrorists, deployed in the town of Jisr al-Shughour in Western Idlib, bombed the army's positions in the mountainous region in Northeastern Lattakia by five attack drones.

He further said that three Syrian soldiers were killed and nine more were wounded in the attack.

Hama

According to Fars News Agancy, the Russian and Syrian fighter jets carried out massive bombing raids on terrorists' positions in Northwestern Hama and Western Idlib on Tuesday, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

The Arabic-language Moraseloun news website reported that the fighter jets conducted a heavy bombing on terrorists' positions in a large region stretching from Southern Idlib to the al-Ghaab Plain in an introduction to the upcoming ground assault.

In the meantime, the warplanes stuck terrorists' strongholds in Jisr al-Shughour, Jabal al-Zawiyeh, Marowaj, al-Shaqar, Harash Basnaqoul, Anab, al-Janoudiyeh, Qani, al-Sarmaniyeh and Zeizoun, inflicting major casualties on the terrorists.

Quneitra

The Syrian Army continued mop-up operation in newly-freed regions in the Southeastern province of Quneitra on Tuesday, discovering a large volume of arms and ammunition including German and Israeli weapons.

The army men carried out cleansing operation in the villages of Jabata al-Khashaba and Ba'ar Ajam in Quneitra, discovering arms, military equipment, communication devices and medical equipment.

A number of German and Israeli missiles, cannons, tanks and medical equipment were also discovered in the region.

Aleppo

The Ankara-backed fighters engaged in a fresh round of infighting in Afrin, a Kurdish media outlet reported on Tuesday, adding that a number of militants are trying to flee from Northern Syria amid the Kurdish fighters' offensive.

Hawar news reported that the Turkey-backed militants exchanged fire at the entrance of the town Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo, adding that the infighting further expanded to Norouz Square.

The infighting broke out after a number of the Ankara-backed militants and their family members started leaving Afrin after the Kurds' attacks on the town in recent days, Hawar news added.

It went on to say that a sum of fifty militants and their family members had gathered in the village of Aqjeleh in Jandaris, intending to leave the region for Turkey.

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