{"id":111578,"date":"2017-08-12T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=111578"},"modified":"2017-08-12T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T16:23:09","slug":"army-establishes-full-control-over-new-areas-in-homs-and-raqqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=111578","title":{"rendered":"Army establishes full control over new areas\u00a0in Homs and Raqqa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provinces, SANA- Army units, in cooperation with the\u00a0backup forces, established full control over al-Sukhneh city, 70 km northeast of Palmyra in the\u00a0eastern countryside of Homs province after<br \/>\nlaunching intensive operations against ISIS\u00a0terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p>A military source told SANA Saturday that large\u00a0numbers of ISIS terrorists were killed and their\u00a0weapons and equipment were destroyed in the army\u00a0operations.<\/p>\n<p>The source added that the army units, in\u00a0cooperation with the backup forces, continued\u00a0their operations to ensure safety of the<br \/>\nsurrounding area and hunted the terrorists who\u00a0fled away.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the engineering units dismantled the\u00a0mines and explosive devices planted by the\u00a0terrorists inside the residential buildings and\u00a0streets, according to the source.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Raqqa<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Army units, in cooperation with\u00a0the backup forces, continued successful operations\u00a0in the depths of al-Badyia desert and conducted a\u00a0night air drop 20 km behind the fronts of the ISIS\u00a0terrorist organization to the south of al-Kadir\u00a0town between Raqqa and Homs.<\/p>\n<p>The army&#8217;s successful airdrop\u00a0contributed to the advancement of the army units\u00a0and the backup forces 21km to establish full<br \/>\ncontrol over Khirbet Makman and al-Kadir town, and\u00a0to the advancement 12 km to the southeast of Raqqa\u00a0to establish control over Bei al-Rahoum village.<\/p>\n<p>Huge numbers of the ISIS terrorists were killed in the operations, in addition to destroying 3 tanks, 17 machinegun-equipped vehicles and 7 cars rigged with explosives and two tanks and a number of artillery pieces were seized, the source said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Deir Ezzor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Army units, backed by the Syrian Air Force, carried out operations against gatherings and movements of ISIS terrorists in Deir Ezzor city during the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>SANA\u2019s reporter said that the Syrian Air Force launched airstrikes against sites, gatherings, and fortifications of ISIS terrorists in the area of al-Mawared, the surroundings of Talet Barouk and al-Thurdeh, and the village of al-Boughielieh in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, killing and injuring many terrorists and destroying their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter noted that army units engaged in fierce clashes with ISIS terrorist groups which attacked military points near al-Boughielieh village in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, thwarting the attack after killing many of the terrorists and destroying their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Civil sources in Deir Ezzor countryside said that a number of ISIS terrorists including leaders fled Mo Hassan city, among them Ahmed al-Ali al-Haj and Abd Almotalib al-Ali al-Haj.<\/p>\n<p>Two terrorist leaders named Tamam al-Mihwes and Raed al-Mihwes also fled with their families from al-Bo Omar village with large sums of money that were in their possession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provinces, SANA- Army units, in cooperation with the\u00a0backup forces, established full control over al-Sukhneh city, 70 km northeast of Palmyra in the\u00a0eastern countryside of Homs province after launching intensive operations against ISIS\u00a0terrorist organizations. A military source told SANA Saturday that large\u00a0numbers of ISIS terrorists were killed and their\u00a0weapons and equipment were destroyed in the army\u00a0operations. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,22],"tags":[14026],"class_list":["post-111578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-reality-of-events","category-slide","tag-army-establishes-full-control-over-new-areas-in-homs-and-raqqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}