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Army Preparing for Idlib Operation as Terrorists Refuse to Leave Demilitarized Zone

Rasa - The Damascus Army plans to deploy more heavy arms in the demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria on Tuesday to pave the ground for a large-scale operation against terrorists in case they insist on remaining in the region.

News ID: 441208

Date: 25 October 2018 - 11:58

RNA - The Syria Army detected terrorists' bases and positions, in which heavy weapons are deployed in Idlib province.

The army has specified the strongholds of heavy arms, tanks, cannons, missiles and mortar launchers in demilitarized zone mentioned in Sochi Agreement.

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.

Idlib

The Syrian Army plans to deploy more heavy arms in the demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria on Tuesday to pave the ground for a large-scale operation against terrorists in case they insist on remaining in the region.

The army detected terrorists' bases and positions, in which heavy weapons are deployed in Idlib province.

In the meantime, a field commander said that the terrorists are still reinvigorating their positions and are dispatching more military hardware to the demilitarized zone, adding the terrorists have continued targeting the Syrian army, and government forces are ready to counter them.

The commander said that a group of Ajnad al-Sham, deployed near a Turkish monitoring post in the small town of Sarman, pounded the Syrian Army positions in the town of Kafraya in Eastern Idlib, pursued by a heavy fight between the army and the terrorists.

Deir Ezzur

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has entered talks with ISIL in Eastern Deir Ezzur to release its captives in return for allowing aid cargoes to the terrorist group, a militant-affiliated news website reported on Tuesday.

Orient news website reported that talks between ISIL and SDF are underway in Deir Ezzur, adding that the talks are over releasing SDF's captives by the ISIL in return for food convoys to ISIL-held regions by the SDF.

If agreed, the US-backed militia should also establish a safe corridor in Eastern Deir Ezzur for the ISIL, according to the report.

Raqqa

Tens of families have fled refugee camps run by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa province and headed towards Aleppo and Idlib provinces, a Syrian paper reported on Tuesday.

Syria's state-run al-Watan daily reported that over 40 families, settled in the refugee camps West of Raqqa city that is under SDF's control, have left for Aleppo and Idlib provinces.

It further said that the refugees' flee is due to the SDF's pressure on the camps' residents to force them to join the SDF and also dire living conditions.

Other sources reported that residents in the SDF-held regions are living in fear as robberies from trade centers and residential units have been rising in the region.

Hama-Aleppo

Terrorists that refused to leave the demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria continued to target the Syrian army troops in Hama and Aleppo province on Tuesday a week after the deadline called by the Sochi Agreement.

According to Fars News Agancy, Syria's state-run al-Watan paper reported that the army units repelled terrorists attack on a road connecting Khirbet al-Naqous to al-Mashari'a in Western Hama, inflicting heavy casualties on them.

It further said that the army's artillery units targeted the movements of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in Wadi al-Dorat region, in the village of Abu Ra'eidah in Northern Hama and in the village of al-Hawash in Western Hama, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

The terrorist groups in Western Aleppo launched missile attacks on a bazaar in Share'a al-Nil in Aleppo, injuring a child and inflicting losses on them.

The terrorists have still remained in the demilitarized zone a week after the October 15 deadline specified in the Sochi Agreement.

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