{"id":145066,"date":"2018-08-19T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=145066"},"modified":"2018-08-19T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:12:20","slug":"army-tightens-noose-around-encircled-isis-pockets-in-sweida-eastern-badia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=145066","title":{"rendered":"Army fortifies its positions in surroundings of al-Safa hills in Sweida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweida, SANA- Syrian Arab Army units\u00a0and the allied forces continued operations against Daesh (ISIS) dens and fortifications in al-Safa hills, the last stronghold for the takfiri terrorist organization in Sweida province&#8217;s eastern badiya (desert).<\/p>\n<p>SANA reporter said that army units fortified their positions in the vicinity of al-Safa hills, tightening the noose around the encircled Daesh pockets, responding with the appropriate weapons to any hostile attempt by terrorists to break the siege imposed on them.<\/p>\n<p>The army\u2019s air force and artillery launched accurate strikes against Daesh dens and fortified positions in \u00a0al-Safa hill, which has a rough terrain replete with rocks, ditches, and gorges, inflicting heavy losses on them in personnel and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the reporter said that an army unit targeted a terrorist group that was moving in the surroundings of Qabr al-Sheikh Yassin area southwest of the hills, destroying two vehicles, one equipped with a heavy machinegun and the other equipped with an anti-air machinegun.<\/p>\n<p>The army also targeted another group near Ghanem hill east of the hills, which resulted in destroying a vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun, while another army units apprehended five terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Manal \/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweida, SANA- Syrian Arab Army units\u00a0and the allied forces continued operations against Daesh (ISIS) dens and fortifications in al-Safa hills, the last stronghold for the takfiri terrorist organization in Sweida province&#8217;s eastern badiya (desert). SANA reporter said that army units fortified their positions in the vicinity of al-Safa hills, tightening the noose around the encircled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,450,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-bar","category-reality-of-events","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145066"}],"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=145066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}