{"id":118873,"date":"2017-11-21T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=118873"},"modified":"2017-11-23T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:36:45","slug":"sanas-camera-in-al-boukamal-after-eliminating-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=118873","title":{"rendered":"Liberation of al-Boukamal foils Israeli-US project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deir Ezzor, SANA \u2013 Dust has settled in the strategic eastern city of al-Boukamal, located on the Syrian-Iraqi border, after the Syrian Arab Army and the allied forces eliminated the last hotbeds of Deash (ISIS) terrorist organization there.<\/p>\n

The retake of al-Boukamal, which was meant to be a springboard for the Israeli-U.S. project of imposing hegemony on the region, has been foiled, with Daesh\u2019s grand dream of establishing an \u201cIslamic Caliphate\u201d being quashed.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the course of the military operations carried out in al-Boukamal, located 140 km southeast of Deir Ezzor city, a field commander told SANA\u2019s delegate that the army units and allied forces succeeded in isolating Daesh from the direction of Iraq and in the Syrian al-Badia from the direction of the railway by establishing control over the villages of al-Herra and al-Swei\u2019iyeh from the southern part and al-Sukarriyeh town until the Euphrates River\u2019s bank.<\/p>\n

All supply routes to Daesh were totally cut off from the northern part after regaining al-Ashaer town, the commander said.
\nHe said Deash terrorists made desperate efforts and used car bombs, explosive devices and suicide bombers in their attempt to defend their fortifications set up among the citizens\u2019 houses, noting that the army personnel fought tough house-to-house battles and tunnel confrontations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were able to rout them and force the remaining terrorists out from al-Boukamal, and now the engineering units are combing the city\u2019s neighborhoods to remove mines and explosive devices,\u201d the commander added.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the army\u2019s operation in al-Boukamal, tens of Deash terrorists who felt the noose was tightened on them fled the city under the protection of the US-led coalition, whose forces tended to jam satellite communications to prevent the Syrian and Russian air forces from targeting Daesh supply convoys.<\/p>\n

With the full liberation of al-Boukamal, Daesh terrorists are being hemmed in to the west of the Euphrates River in the area stretching from the northwest of the Badia of al-Boukamal to the southeast of al-Sukhneh and in the area on the eastern bank of the River from the north of al-Boukamal to the south of Markadeh in the northeastern Hasaka province.<\/p>\n