Syria in Last 24 Hours:

Air Force Bombs Heavily ISIL's Movements in Homs

Rasa - The Syrian Air Force carried out a fresh round of combat flights over ISIL's positions and movements in Eastern Homs over the past 24 hours, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

News ID: 441186

Date: 24 October 2018 - 11:57

RNA - The ISIL's movements were pounded by Syrian fighter jets near Aweiraz Dam and also in a region between Deir Ezzur and Homs border in the Eastern desert of Palmyra in Eastern Homs, killing and wounding a large number of terrorists and destroying their military hardware.

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.

Homs

The Syrian Air Force carried out a fresh round of combat flights over ISIL's positions and movements in Eastern Homs on Monday, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

The fighter jets pounded ISIL's movements near Aweiraz Dam and also in a region between Deir Ezzur and Homs border in the Eastern desert of Palmyra in Eastern Homs, killing and wounding a large number of terrorists and destroying their military hardware.

In the meantime, a sum of 175 militants that had laid down arms in Homs, received government amnesty and returned to normal life in line with a nationwide peace plan across the country.

Aleppo

A large number of People in the town of al-Bab in Northeastern Aleppo poured into the streets, calling for expulsion of Turkish army men and their allied militants, a Kurdish news website reported.

The Kurdish-language Hawar news reported that a large number of civilians in al-Bab region in Northeastern Aleppo took to the streets and demonstrated against the Turkish military and the Ankara-backed militants, calling for their expulsion from the occupied Northern Syria.

It further quoted local sources in al-Bab as reporting that Ankara forces occupied Kurdish people's lands in the villages of Sheikh Jarah, Balikh, Ka'eibah, Sosanbat, Sadoud, Borj, Kalbin and Na'aman.

The Turkish army units and their allied militants have kidnapped hundreds of people and have forced hundreds more to leave their residential unis since occupation of Northern Syria almost 7 months ago.

Idlib

Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists continued fortifying their strongholds in Northern Idlib and Western Aleppo on Monday in violation of the Sochi Agreement that envisages a demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria.

According to Fars News Agency, Tahrir al-Sham has reinvigorated its strongholds in several regions in Northern Idlib, including Deir Hasaan and Bab al-Hawa at border with Turkey and also it has kept its gunmen in Western Aleppo on alert.

In the meantime, Tahrir al-Sham members on board several military vehicles stormed the position of rival groups in the small town of Batbo in Western Aleppo and pulled down the flags of the groups.

Also, Tahrir al-Sham has arrested tens of people in the villages and region in Southern and Western Idlib after the Sochi Agreement endorsed by Turkey and Russia to create a demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria.

Tahrir al-Sham, meanwhile, attacked an ISIL base near the town of Saraqib in Southeastern Idlib and seized their weapons.

Hasaka

Tensions between civilians and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have increased in Hasaka in Eastern Syria, media outlets reported, adding that a senior commander of the SDF was assassinated in the region.

The Arabic-language al-Manar news channel reported on Monday that one of the SDF commanders named Haji Dikiyeh was killed by unknown assailants in the town of Qamishli in Northeastern Hasaka.

According to the report, another member of the SDF forces was also severely wounded by unknown gunmen in Hasaka city's al-Nashwah district.

Meantime, local sources in Hasaka province reported that the SDF has detained at least 30 young people in the villages of Kaskas Jabour and al-Zayanat near the town of al-Shadadi in Southern Hasaka and a number of others in the village of al-Qara in Western Hasaka.

Tensions have recently heightened in Hasaka province after the SDF launched forced recruitment from civilians.

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