23-04-2024 11:51 AM Jerusalem Timing

Syrian Army Foils Takfiri Attack in Daraa, Kills at least 50 Gunmen in Lattakia

Syrian Army Foils Takfiri Attack in Daraa, Kills at least 50 Gunmen in Lattakia

The Syrian army continued on Tuesday military operations against the terrorist organizations’ hideouts and positions across the country, inflicting heavy loses upon them in personnel and equipment.

Syrian Arab ArmyThe Syrian army continued on Tuesday military operations against the terrorist organizations’ hideouts and positions across the country, inflicting heavy loses upon them in personnel and equipment, state-run SANA news agency reported.

In Daraa, an army unit carried out intensified operations against the al-Nusra front affiliate terrorist organizations in al-Nueimeh village, 4 km east of Daraa city.

The army operation resulted in killing and injury scores of terrorists and the destruction of their weapons and ammunition, the source added.

Another army unit eliminated a number of terrorists in precise military operations against al-Nusra Front and other Takfiri terrorist organizations’ positions to the west of the  schools complex in Daraa al-Mahata, the east of al- Tulabieh square  and to the south of al- Khalil mosque in Daraa al-Balad.

Meanwhile, terrorist organizations admitted on their social media websites the killing of a number of their members, including Khaldoun Hamad al-Yousef and Aahmad Mousa al-Abboud.

Terrorists’ vehicles equipped with machine guns  were destroyed in a series of army air strikes in Daraa city and its surroundings.

An army unit destroyed an ammunition depot in Khrab al-Shahm town in the countryside of the province near the Jordanian border.

In the neighboring Quneitra province, an army unit carried out a special operation in which it killed a number of terrorists affiliated to al-Nusra Front, the so-called “Ahrar al-Sham Movement” and “Al-Furqan Brigades” in Mas’hara town in the eastern countryside of the southern Quneitra province.

Another army unit targeted gatherings of terrorists and others’ movements to the north of al-Hamidiyeh village to the west of Quneitra city, leaving some of them killed or wounded.

In Lattakia, at least 50 terrorists, most of them from al-Nusra terrorist group, were killed in army operations against their dens and positions in the villages of Droushan, al-Durra and Rabi’a, 60 km to the north of Lattakia city in the coastal Lattakia province.

The military source added that an armored vehicle, another equipped with a machinegun and an amount of ammunition and weapons belonging to the terrorists were destroyed in the operations.

In northern Syria, the army units targeted terrorists’ positions in the neighborhoods of al- Rashidin, Alliramoun, al-Zaidiyeh, Bustan al-Qasr, Qadi Askar and al-Jadideh in Aleppo city, killing and injuring scores of terrorists.

Meanwhile, a source in Aleppo province told SANA that an army unit destroyed last night a car packed with large amounts of explosives which the terrorists tried to drive it into Jamiyet al-Zahraa neighborhood on the western outskirts of Aleppo city.

The car was completely destroyed before it managed to enter the neighborhood, said the source, stressing that the suicide bomber and all the terrorists near the car were killed.

The army units, the source added, clashed with terrorists who tried to infiltrate toward the neighborhood, killing and injuring scores of them.

In the same context, army units killed al-Nusra terrorists in operations against their positions and hideouts in al-Mansoureh village and in the surroundings of the Scientific Research building near the city.

In the southern countryside of the province, many terrorists were killed and injured and their vehicles, weapons and ammunition were destroyed during army operations against their hideouts and movements in the village of Binan al-Hos and Khirbet al-Maaser.

In the neighboring Idleb province, army units destroyed a number of hideouts for al-Nusra with terrorists, weapons and ammunition inside to the north and south of Abu al-Duhour airport and in Bishlamoun, Kinsafra and Jisr al-Shughour in the countryside of the province.

In Hasaka, the army air force carried out a series of air strikes against hideouts of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group in al-Shadadi city in the northeastern Hasaka province.

The military source confirmed to SANA that the air strikes left several hideouts destroyed in Masaken 48 and the Water Station in the city.

More hideouts were destroyed in al-Arisha town in al-Shadadi area, which terrorists have turned into a main center for them where they train recruits and make explosives and car bombs.

Meanwhile, SANA reporter in Hasaka province said army targeted gatherings of ISIL terrorists in the surroundings of the main power station and the neighborhoods of al-Lailiyeh and al-Nashwa al-Gharbiyeh and near the Hotel School in the southern outskirts of Hasaka city.

In central Syria, army units inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in personnel and equipment during operations against their hideouts and gatherings in Taldao and al-Houla in northeastern Homs province.

The source added that a number of al-Nusra terrorists were killed and their weapons and ammunition were destroyed in Saliko Street in al- Rastan in the countryside of Homs province.

In Damascus Countryside, the army air force killed ISIS terrorists and destroyed a car bomb and a machine gun in Tal al-Dabe’ al-Gharbi on the outskirts of al-Badia desert between Damascus countryside and Homs.

An army unit, the source also said, targeted terrorists, most of them affiliated to al-Nusra Front, to the west of Tallet Marwan near Mighr al-Mir village, 40 km to the southwest of Damascus. A vehicle with terrorists on board was destroyed there.

Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the western media reports accuse countries, mainly the USA, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of orchestrating the civil conflict in the country and providing terrorist groups with money, weapons and trained mercenaries.

On May 2011, Syrian army launched a wide-scale operation against armed groups and gunmen operating in the country, who started to escape the army blows and infiltrate illegally to Lebanon.