Tens of Terrorists Killed in Foiled Attempt to Reopen Vital Road in Hama

Tens of terrorists were killed and wounded in foiled attack on Syrian Army positions to regain the areas that they have lost recently.

News ID: 444791

Date: 09 May 2019 - 03:58

RNA - The Arabic-language version of the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted a military source as saying that large groups of elite militants of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) attacked the Syrian Army's military positions to retake control of the regions that they have lost in Northwestern Hama in Tal Osman and al-Asar axes.

Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over past 24 hours.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.

Hama

Tens of terrorists have been killed and wounded in foiled attack on Syrian Army positions to regain back the areas that they have lost recently, the Arabic-language media sources said.

Large groups of elite militants of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at attacked the Syrian Army's military positions to retake control of the regions that they have lost in Northwestern Hama in Tal Osman and al-Asar axes, the Arabic-language version of the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted a military source as saying.

The source pointed to fierce clashes and dispatch of militants and military equipment to battlefronts, and said that at least 70 militants were killed and injured in airstrikes by the Russian and Syrian bombers.

Meantime, another military source said that the Syrian Army took control of the strategic Osman Hill (Tal Osman) and its surrounding areas, and managed to cut the vital line of movement connecting two main bases of the terrorists in Qala al-Maziq and Kafr Naboudeh.

He pointed to the recent advances by the Syrian Army towards borders with Idlib, and said that the Syrian Army intends to cut the terrorists' lines connecting Idlib and Lattakia by taking full control of the strategic Kobani region in Northern Lattakia.

Aleppo

The Syrian Army has dispatched massive military equipment and a large number of troops to Northern Aleppo in a bid to reinforce positions in the region after an attack by the Turkish Army and its allied militants was fended off, sources said.

The Syrian Army sent a massive military convoy comprising over 200 government troops and military vehicles carrying military equipment from al-Hamdaniyeh region in Aleppo to the town of Ahras and Tal Raf'at in Northern Aleppo, reinforcing their military positions, battlefield sources in Northern Aleppo said Tuesday.

The sources noted that the measure was launched in line with preparing the Syrian Army for any possible attack after warding off an attack by Turkish Army and its allied militants on the government forces' positions in Mar'anaz region in Northern Aleppo.

Deir Ezzur

All members of a Syrian family were killed in an attack by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who were backed by US military choppers in Deir Ezzur in Eastern Syria amid intensified tensions between civilians and SDF militants, an Arabic-language news paper said.

According to Fars News Agancy, a group of SDF militants backed by American helicopters raided the house of a civilian in the town of Zaman in Eastern Deir Ezzur, Al-Watan newspaper quoted media activists in Eastern Syria as saying.

The SDF militants took out the entire family, including a pregnant woman, they added.

The activists reiterated that killing of the Syrian civilians in Deir Ezzur was one of the most horrendous ones which was backed by the US, and said that the SDF prevented the people from helping the family.

Meantime, the town of Zaman has been the scene of popular protests against the SDF and the occupying US troops.

Meanwhile, the residents of Hasan town demanded expulsion of SDF militants by holding popular protests amid revolts against the occupying forces in Eastern Deir Ezzur.

847/940