Provinces, SANA – The army and armed forces on Tuesday continued combating terrorism, killing scores of Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS terrorists and destroying their positions in several areas.<\/p>\n
Damascus countryside<\/span><\/p>\n An army unit in cooperation with popular defense groups advanced along Bala-Jisrin axis in eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside and established control over more points in the area after killing a number of terrorists and destroying their fortifications and weapons,\u00a0a military source said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Many terrorists were killed or injured and a fortified position for them, along with their weaponry and ammunition, were destroyed in the operation.<\/p>\n During combing operations in farms east of Jisrin, a large network of tunnels and trenches that terrorists were using for launching their attacks was discovered.<\/p>\n Daraa<\/span><\/p>\n An army unit ambushed a Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group on Daraa-Tafas axis in the southern Daraa province, killing its members and destroying their vehicles.<\/p>\n Lattakia<\/span><\/p>\n Army units in cooperation with popular defense groups repelled an assault by terrorist groups on a number of military posts in Nahshaba area in the northern countryside of Lattakia.<\/p>\n The source added that the clashes with terrorists left scores of them dead or injured and destroyed their ammunition and weaponry.<\/p>\n Terrorist organizations acknowledged on their pages on social media sites the death of the so called \u201cAbu Hajar al-Bennishi,\u201d a field commander of Jabhat al-Nusra and the so called \u201cAhmad al-Shishani\u201d, one of the military officials in the so called \u201cAjnad al-Caucasus\u201d in Lattakia northern countryside.<\/p>\n Deir Ezzor<\/span><\/p>\n An army unit repelled an attack launched by ISIS terrorist groups against military posts in the southern surroundings of Deir Ezzor city, a field source told SANA.<\/p>\n The source explained that heavy clashes erupted with the attacking ISIS terrorist groups in the surroundings of al-Tharda Mountain, located to the south of Deir Ezzor city, resulting in the death and injury of several terrorists before the rest of them managed to flee.<\/p>\n While the clashes were on, an army unit targeted gatherings of ISIS terrorists and their movements in the vicinity of al-Tharda Mountain, inflicting losses upon their ranks.<\/p>\n Sweida<\/span><\/p>\n An army unit killed members of a terrorist group from ISIS in al-Qasr village in Sweida northeastern countryside.<\/p>\n The army unit also destroyed the weaponry and ammunition of the eliminated group.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Provinces, SANA – The army and armed forces on Tuesday continued combating terrorism, killing scores of Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS terrorists and destroying their positions in several areas. Damascus countryside An army unit in cooperation with popular defense groups advanced along Bala-Jisrin axis in eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside and established control over more points …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,450,22],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-81159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-reality-of-events","category-slide","tag-army-operations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81159"}],"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=81159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}