Provinces\u00a0SANA-\u00a0With Russian and Syrian air support, army units aided by the popular defense groups launched on Thursday morning a military operation in Atherya area in the eastern countryside of Hama province, a military source announced.<\/p>\n
The source told SANA reporter that the army has already established control over Abu al-Zein Mountains and al-Masbah area, inflicting heavy losses upon ISIS in personnel and equipment.<\/p>\n
The source added that the army units are now hunting the fleeing ISIS terrorists in the area.<\/p>\n
Damascus Countryside<\/span><\/p>\n An army unit eliminated terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra in the vicinity of al-Maqrousa village in Damascus countryside.<\/p>\n A field source told SANA that an army unit, in cooperation with popular defense groups in the two villages of Al-Maqrousa and Harfa, clashed with terrorist groups affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra that\u00a0launched an attack in the last few hours against al-Maqrousa locals from the axis of Tal Marwan-al-Taasemia in the southwestern countryside of Damascus<\/span>.<\/p>\n The clashes ended up with killing and injuring a big number of the terrorists, forcing the remaining terrorists to flee and destroying a 14.5 mm heavy machinegun.<\/p>\n Daraa<\/span><\/p>\n In the southern province of Daraa, an army unit destroyed a\u00a0position for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the\u00a0southern city of Daraa.<\/p>\n The\u00a0military source explained to\u00a0SANA that an army unit\u00a0destroyed a position for Jabhat al-Nusra with all\u00a0terrorist inside in\u00a0the southern side of al-\u00a0Manshiyeh neighborhood in\u00a0Daraa al-Balad.<\/p>\n Terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra, Tawheed al-Janoub\u00a0brigade, Mujahedi Horan battalions and other\u00a0terrorist organizations, backed by the Israeli\u00a0enemy entity, are positioned in Daraa\u00a0neighborhoods and countryside and continually target locals\u00a0in safe areas with mortar and rocket shells.<\/p>\n English Bulletin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Provinces\u00a0SANA-\u00a0With Russian and Syrian air support, army units aided by the popular defense groups launched on Thursday morning a military operation in Atherya area in the eastern countryside of Hama province, a military source announced. The source told SANA reporter that the army has already established control over Abu al-Zein Mountains and al-Masbah area, inflicting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,450,22],"tags":[739,10146,6319],"class_list":["post-79037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-reality-of-events","category-slide","tag-army-operations","tag-atherya","tag-establishes-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79037"}],"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=79037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}