Syrian Army Dispatches Large Convoy of Fresh Forces to Southeastern Border with Iraq

The Damascus Army sent a large number of fresh soldiers and military hardware to Deir Ezzur province near the border with Iraq on Saturday to counter ISIL's threats.

News ID: 442589

Date: 24 December 2018 - 11:47

RNA - The Syrian Army dispatched two convoys of military vehicles to regions near the town of Albu Kamal in Southeastern Deir Ezzur near border with Iraq.

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 forwarded a large number of fresh soldiers and military hardware to Deir Ezzur province near the border with Iraq on Saturday to counter ISIL's threats.

The Army sent 2 convoys of military vehicles to regions near the town of Albu Kamal in Southeastern Deir Ezzur near border with Iraq.

The convoys included a large number of forces from the 5th Division along with a large volume of arms and ammunition and armored vehicles.

The army's decision to reinvigorate positions in Southeastern Deir Ezzur came after ISIL intensified attacks on the Western bank of the Euphrates River.

In the meantime, a number of Russian and Syrian forces were sent by military planes to Deir Ezzur airport.

Meanwhile, the army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL in Albu Kamal and managed to repel their attacks after inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

Hama-Idlib

The Syrian Army's artillery and missile units, deployed in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib, shelled terrorist groups' movements from the demilitarized zone on Saturday and preempted their heavy offensives.

The artillery and missile units, deployed in al-Ghaab Plain in Northern Hama, shelled the positions and movements of Turkistani Islamic Party that tired to break through the government forces' positions from the small town of al-Ziyarah in demilitarized zone.

Turkistani terrorists suffered heavy casualties and their military hardware sustained major damage in the heavy artillery attack that caused the remaining pockets of the terrorists to retreat.

Other artillery units pounded the positions of a group of Turkistani Islamic Party in the small town of al-Najiyeh in Jisr al-Shughour in Western Idlib, killing and wounding a number of terrorists and destroying their military equipment.

Other army units, deployed in Southeastern Idlib, targeted terrorists' movements in the villages and small towns of al-Khowein, Skeik, Zarzour, al-Farajah, Sahal and Jarjanaz, imposing major losses on the terrorists.

Homs

The Russian Army is planning to set up a military base near the US-run base in Al-Tanf region in Southeastern Homs near the border with Jordan, field media activists reported on Saturday.

The activists in Syria's Desert reported that a number of Russian military vehicles along with military hardware and pre-fabricated rooms have been dispatched to the Syria Desert in Southeastern Syria.

They further said that a number of Syrian soldiers have been accompanying the Russian convoy.

The sources went on to say that the Russian convoy was sent to Zaza strategic region between Syria Desert and the small towns of Eastern Qalamoun along the Damascus-Baghdad international highway almost 50 km away from the US-run Al-Tanf base.

In the meantime, Arabic Sky News pointed to the Russian convoy, and said that the Russian forces are planning to build a military base in the region.

The commander of Maqawir al-Thowrah terrorists announced that his forces will soon leave Al-Tanf for Northern Syria after the US President announced withdrawal of forces from Syria.

A militant commander at Al-Tanf disclosed earlier on Saturday that the United States will withdraw troops from its military base in the Southeastern Syrian town of Al-Tanf, near the Jordanian border.

Muhannad al-Talla told BuzzFeed that the US troops, who had been training and fighting alongside Al-Tanf's militants, would withdraw from the base, specifying that he was helping to remove equipment.

An anonymous US official confirmed the information, emphasizing that this move came as part of US President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of Syria.

Aleppo

A number of Turkish soldiers and Ankara-backed militants were killed or wounded in the Kurdish militias' attacks in occupied Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo, a Kurdish media outlet reported on Saturday.

The Arabic-language website of Hawar news reported that the Kurdish militias' attacked the Turkish troops' position between Shera region and the village of Koubleh, killing a soldier and wounding 6 more.

It further said a bomb, planted by the Kurdish militia in a vehicle of Firqa al-Hamzah, went off in a region between the village of Bastounah and Afrin, leaving a number of the Ankara-backed militants dead.

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