Syria in Last 24 Hours:

Army Discovers US-Made Missiles at Terrorists' Strongholds in Damascus

Rasa - The Syrian army found a large number of weapons and military equipment, including US-made missiles, during cleansing operations in Southern Damascus over the past 24 hours.

News ID: 441598

Date: 19 November 2018 - 09:40

RNA - The engineering units of the army discovered the arms and equipment which included the US-made TOW missiles, RPGs and its ammunition, machine-guns, grenades, mortars and other ammunitions in a farm between the towns of Babbila and Beit Saham near the capital, a field source reported on Saturday.

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 found a large number of weapons and military equipment, including US-made missiles, during cleansing operations in Southern Damascus.

The engineering units of the army discovered the arms and equipment which included the US-made TOW missiles, RPGs and its ammunition, machine-guns, grenades, mortars and other ammunitions in a farm between the towns of Babbila and Beit Saham near the capital, a field source reported on Saturday.

Meantime, the army forces also found a network of tunnels near Damascus used by the terrorists for transferring goods and weapons in their purging operations in the towns of Yalda, Babbila and Beit Saham in Southern Damascus.

Also, at least 100kg of explosives and 75kg of mines and grenades were discovered in the wells near the farms of the two towns of Beit Tima and Beit Saber.

Sweida

The Syrian Army units continued storming ISIL's strongholds in the Eastern desert of Sweida on Saturday, capturing more vital points in Toloul al-Safa rugged terrain.

The army forces, backed up by the artillery and missile units, engaged in heavy fighting with ISIL in several flanks in the Eastern desert of Sweida and managed to advance 2 km against the terrorists Northeast of Toloul al-Safa.

In the meantime, other units of the army drove ISIL out of several key positions in Qabr Sheikh Hossein region, West of Toloul al-Safa.

Also, the army men exchanged heavy fire with the ISIL and managed to seize military control over Tal al-Marati region in the Eastern desert of Sweida.

An army officer said more than a dozen terrorists were killed and dozens more wounded and their positions and military hardware were damaged in the army operation.

Hama

Terrorist groups, deployed in the demilitarized zone envisioned in the Sochi Agreement, increased their attacks on the Syrian Army positions in Northwestern Hama on Saturday, fueling tensions in the vital region.

The army's artillery and missile units, deployed in the small town of Bazam in Northern Hama, opened heavy fire at a group of terrorists near the town of Morek, inflicting major losses on the militants.

According to Fars News Agency, the army's artillery attack came after the terrorist group's snipers targeted the Syrian soldiers.

Other units of the army engaged in heavy fighting with another group of terrorists and repelled their attack in al-Sarminiyah in Northwestern Hama.

The terrorists suffered a number of casualties and failed to prevail over the army positions.

Raqqa

The Turkish Army troops continue heavy machine-gun and artillery attacks on vital positions of the Kurdish militias in Northern Raqqa, a Lebanese media outlet reported on Saturday.

The Arabic-language al-Manar TV Channel reported that the army's heavy machineguns and artillery units targeted the Kurdish fighters' positions near the town of Tal Abyadh in Northern Raqqa, but it gave no further report on the number of possible casualties.

It said Turkish reconnaissance planes flew over Kurdish positions in Tal Abyadh, adding that Tal Abyadh is among the most important targets of the Turkish forces' future assault in Northern Syria.

In the meantime, media activists in Raqqa reported that Yusuf Abdul Karim, one of the most important security commanders of the Syrian Democratic Forces, was killed by unknown raiders near al-Hazimah square in the Northern part of Raqqa.

The Turkish forces' attack on the Kurds has continued regardless of the US Forces' announcement of full support for the Kurds in recent weeks.

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