ISIL Fails to Prevail over Army Positions in Deir Ezzur

Rasa - The Damascus army troops engaged in a tough battle with the ISIL and repelled their heavy offensive in Eastern Deir Ezzur over the past 24 hours.

News ID: 440726

Date: 28 September 2018 - 11:45

RNA - The Syrian army managed to fend off the ISIL's heavy attack in Hasarat region on the Western bank of the Euphrates River, inflicting heavy casualties on the terrorists.

The government troops also inflicted heavy losses on the ISIL's military hardware and the terrorists retreated from the battlefield to evade more losses.

In the meantime, the army's artillery units opened heavy fire at ISIL's strongholds in the battlefield, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

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.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian Army troops engaged in a tough battle with the ISIL and repelled their heavy offensive in Eastern Deir Ezzur on Tuesday.

The army men managed to fend off ISIL's heavy attack in Hasarat region on the Western bank of the Euphrates River, inflicting heavy casualties on the terrorists.

The ISIL's military hardware also sustained major damage and the terrorists retreated from the battlefield to evade more losses.

On Saturday, the US military forces continued illegal heliborne operations and rescued several senior ISIL commanders from the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur.

A US military helicopter landed on farms near the village of al-Morashedah between the two small towns of al-Souseh and al-Baqouziyeh, to take away a number of non-Syrian commanders of the ISIL that were possibly cooperating with the US-led coalition.

Heliborne of ISIL commanders by the US military has long been underway amid the US claims of fighting ISIL terrorists on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

Hama

The Turkish Army sent more troops and equipment to Northern Hama on Tuesday a week after an agreement with Russia over Idlib.

The Turkish army dispatched a long convoy of 40 personnel carriers and military vehicles to the truce monitoring point in Shir Maqar in Northern Hama via Bab al-Hawa border crossing in Northern Idlib.

Moscow and Ankara agreed on a demilitarized zone in Idlib a week ago.

On Sunday, a battalion of the Turkish commandoes crossed Tonkli province border with Northwestern Syria and entered Idlib province.

The elite forces' dispatch to Idlib is allegedly aimed at reinvigoration of truce-monitoring points in the Northwestern province.

In the meantime, field sources in Northern Syria reported that a new convoy of the Turkish troops, including elite forces, personnel-carrier vehicles and canons has been dispatched to Rayhanli region in Hatay province near the border with Western Idlib.

Aleppo

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and civilians in Manbij rejoin in Northeastern Syria engaged in heavy fighting due to continued forced recruitment by the SDF, local sources reported on Tuesday.

The sources said that al-Qashlah villagers fought against the SDF militias after a sum of 15 young men, who had been arrested by the SDF under the forced recruitment plan, managed to escape from the SDF base in Tishrin Dam region South of Manbij.

On Sunday, the SDF carried out their largest arrest operation across Hasaka and Raqqa provinces.

According to Fars News Agancy, a local source said that the SDF has detained a sum of 800 young men in Hassan Darwish base, and sent 400 more to another base in Tal Abyadh.

The source went on to say that the SDF men are on alert as its measure has enraged civilians in Northeastern Syria.

Sweida

The Syrian Army troops continued hunting the remaining pockets of the ISIL in the Eastern deserts of Sweida and captured more points in Toloul al-Safa on Tuesday.

The army units engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL in the depth of the Eastern desert of Sweida, imposing control over more areas in the rocks in Toloul al-Safa.

In the meantime, the army's artillery and missile units pounded ISIL's strongholds and movements in Toloul al-Safa, destroying the terrorists' positions and killing a number of sniper men.

The army has reinvigorated its positions in Toloul al-Safa.

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