By R. Jazaeri
Source: SANA
Sweida – Army units continued to advance in the depth of the rocky cliffs in the area
of al-Safa hills in Sweida eastern Badyia (desert) after violent clashes with Daesh (ISIS) terrorists.

SANA reporter in Sweida said that army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, advanced over an area of 1 km in the area of al-Safa hills, establishing control over strategic areas and many caves used by Daesh terrorists as fortified positions.

The reporter added that the new advancement came after violent clashes between army units backed by the supporting forces and terrorists, as scores of terrorists were killed and others were injured while the remnants fled away.

The reporter indicated that the army air force and artillery conducted precision bombardments against positions, dens and fortifications of Daesh terrorists in the depth of the rocky cliffs, inflicting heavy losses upon them amid a state of collapse among their ranks after destroying their defense lines and depriving them of their water resources.

By H. Zain/ Ghossoun
Source: SANA
Sweida – A massive popular funeral ceremony has been held on Thursday for the martyrs of the terrorist attacks targeted Sweida, SANA reporter said.

The participants in the funeral said that Sweida will ever remain an immune fortress in the face of terrorism as it offers sacrifices to defend the homeland.

They expressed readiness to defend their homeland and sacrifice their souls in defending its dignity, security and stability and eliminating the mercenary terrorists from each inch of the Syrian land.

On Wednesday, a number of citizens were martyred and others were injured in terrorist suicide bombing attacks in Sweida city synchronizing with Daesh (ISIS) attacks on a number of villages in the eastern and northern countryside of the province.

By Manar al-Frieh/Manal
Source: SANA
Daraa -The Syrian Arab Army advanced in the northeastern countryside of Daraa province, killing scores of terrorists.

SANA’s war correspondent in Daraa said that the army restored control over the villages and towns of al-Herak, Rakham, al-Soura, Alma, al-Mliha al-Sharqia and al-Mliha al-Gharbia in Daraa countryside in the northeast of Daraa city.

Following the liberation, the army’s engineering units started combing the area in order to dismantle mines and IEDs planted by terrorists before they fled towards neighboring areas.

The reporter added that army units secured the families in their houses and enhanced military points in the liberated villages and towns to use them as a launchpad for continued military operations to eradicate the terrorist presence in the entire province of Daraa.

During the combing operation in Alma town, the army uncovered two ammunition caches, mostly western-made, two BMP vehicles, a bulldozer and a field hospital.

The hospital which is located on the outskirts of Alma town is a residential building with medicines from international organizations and regional countries that entered Syria illegally.

Speaking to SANA, a field commander said that army units used tactics compatible with the geographical nature of Alma town and fought violent clashes with terrorists who had barricaded themselves inside civilian houses which they turned into command sites.

The commander added that the 24-hours battles resulted in the liberating of the town by the army’s heroes while terrorists fled through agricultural roads in the eastern countryside of the province.

The Army will continue its operations till eradicating terrorism in Daraa, the commander said.

Army units also regained control over the Air Defense Battalion /49/ which was turned by terrorists into one of their sites.

Another field commander indicated that the Battalion overlooked Damascus-Daraa International Highway and a number of neighboring towns and was used by terrorists to fire shells at the Highway and attack the army’s points in the area.

SANA’s war correspondent cited information indicating that militants in the villages of Um Walad, Jbib and al-Aslaha in the farthest eastern countryside of Daraa agreed to hand over their weapons and join reconciliation.

Source: Fars News
Syrian Army troops and popular forces continued their advances against Jeish al-Fatah terrorists in Eastern Aleppo and seized control over half of Hananou Housing Project.

The army soldiers and their popular allies engaged in tough battle with terrorists of Nouralddeen al-Zinki and captured over fifty percent of the Hananou Housing Project area.

In the meantime, a group of Palestinian Resistance fighters pushed terrorists back from different parts of Hananou, including Welfare House, Governorate Building, al-Amiliyeh area, Post Building, Eastern Mosque and a Wedding Hall and then moved towards the Southern neighborhoods of Hananou Housing quarter.

Militant groups have thus far suffered a heavy death toll in the attacks, a field source said, adding that fierce clashes are still underway near Ba’eidin square.

The army soldiers have also managed to approach the Northern parts of Hananou Housing Project and the Youth Housing Area in the recent days.

The army troops and the Lebanese Hezbollah Fighters continued their advances against the Jeish al-Fatah collation of terrorist groups in Hananou Housing Project and seized control of more areas and positions on Tuesday.

After wining control over terrorists’ operations room in Hananou Housing Project and capturing five bases of militants on Monday, the Syrian government forces, including soldiers and Hezbollah fighters, continued their advances and took back al-Sha’abi Bazaar and al-Atfa’eh square on Tuesday.

The army units also seized control over a highway parallel with this flank.

The army’s artillery units also shelled terrorists’ centers and positions in Hananou.

The army men also managed to advance against militants’ positions from the direction of al-Jandoul square towards al-Ba’eidin.

The government forces increased their control over the positions along the street connecting al-Jandoul to al-Ba’eidin.

In the meantime, a military source disclosed that the army troops are about to expand their operation in the neighborhoods of al-Ba’eidin and al-Oweijeh in Northeastern parts of Aleppo city in order to increase pressure on the terrorists trapped in the Eastern districts.

Opposition-linked internet websites said Nouralddeen al-Zinki and Fatah al-Sham Front (previously known as the al-Nusra Front) militant groups dispatched a large number of fighters to Hananou Housing Project to slow down the army’s rapid advances in the district.

Source: SANA

SANA, which is in direct contact with the Syrian Army, reports that “Army units, in cooperation with the allied forces, established control over an area of above 120 km2 in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo…

“The Army and Allied Forces engaged in fierce battles with terrorist groups in areas around the Infantry School, inflicting on them heavy losses in personnel and equipment.

“Twenty five villages and farms, including Tal Shaer, the farms surrounding it, al-Ta’ana, Harysa, al-Wardieh, Jobah and the farms surrounding it are now under SAA control.

“Army units also confronted attacks launched by ISIS and armed groups linked to the Turkish regime on the military points in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.

“Terrorist groups which are supported by the Turkish regime falsely claim to be fighting ISIS in the direction of northeast of al-Bab, but it is the Syrian Army and the allied forces who drove the ISIS terrorists away from the entire area in 15 days.

“Sweida: An army unit targeted ISIS terrorists in al-Qasser village to the northeast of Sweida city. Ten ISIS members were killed and two of their vehicles destroyed.”

SANA
Syrian Army units re-established full control over Bani Zaid neighborhood in Aleppo, adding that the army engineering units dismantled the explosives and mines from its streets and squares.

The Syrian Army also established control over Efrin bus station, youth housing and all the building blocks and factories in al-Liramoun in the northern outskirts of Aleppo.

Scores of terrorists turned themselves in and gave up their weapons to the authorities.

Terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages the death of Ammar Shaaban, leader of “Nour al-Din al-Zinki” movement in Handarat to the northeast of Aleppo.

Homs

The Syrian Army air force destroyed ISIS fortified positions and vehicles in Burj Qaei, al-Talila reserve and east of al-Mahata al-Thalitha in Homs countryside.

Hama

Army units, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, clashed during the past hours fiercely with Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists who attacked, from many directions, al-Zara power plant in Hama southern countryside.

The attack was foiled with 30 terrorists killed, scores injured and their command center destroyed, two vehicles equipped with machine-gun and a mortar launcher.

The Syrian Army air force launched airstrikes on terrorist sites: al-Latamina town, Morik city and Skik village in the northern countryside of Hama, inflicting heavy losses on terrorists and arms.

The airstrikes also destroyed terrorist vehicles and fortified sites in Hor Binafsoh area in the southern countryside of the province.

In the eastern countryside, the army’s airstrikes targeted ISIS gatherings in Kalib al-Thor village in Salamyiah countryside, killing a number of terrorists, injuring many others and destroying their equipped vehicles.

Meanwhile, SANA reporter pointed out that an army unit destroyed with two guided missiles two heavy-equipped vehicles for ISIS in Tabarit al-Diba Hill.

Deir Ezzor

The Syrian Army air force destroyed ISIS positions and vehicles north of al-Mrai’eyeh, al-Howeiqa, Baqjaji and north of al-Jafra in Deir Ezzor.

Daraa

Army units carried out operations against dens and fortifications of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Daraa al-Balad, inflicting heavy losses.

A military source said in a statement to SANA that an army unit destroyed a command center for Jabhat al-Nusra and killed a number of terrorists during accurate strikes against their gatherings in al-Naziheen Camp.

Another army unit destroyed hotbeds of terrorists during an operation against their gatherings and fortifications to the south east of al-Karak Tank, the building of LG Company , the surrounding of Um al-Daraj well in al-Bajabjeh district.

Sweida

An army unit striked a convoy of terrorists’ vehicles in the area surrounding Rami village in the eastern countryside of Sweida, destroying a number of vehicles, some of which were transporting terrorists while others were equipped with heavy machine-guns.

Source: Sputnik News
The Syrian Army has reportedly destroyed a column of Daesh’s oil tankers in the country’s southwestern province of Sweida.

A column of oil tankers owned by Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) has been destroyed by the Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) in Sweida province in the country’s southwest, according to the Iranian news agency FARS.

“A convoy of 16 ISIL oil tankers was targeted by the Syrian Army in the region of Shaghaf located [in the] southeast of Sweida province,” the sources were quoted by FARS said.

According to the sources, all of the oil tankers were set ablaze during the army’s attack, and an array of the convoy’s military guards were killed.

The army and the Syrian National Defense Forces intensified their military operations against Daesh terrorists in Sweida last month.

In particular, the Syrian troops, supported by the NDF, obliterated Daesh positions in the village of Al-Qasr in northern Sweida, sources said. Although the mostly government-held province is predominantly Druze and practices a Unitarian religion which features elements of Christianity, Buddhism and Neoplatonism, many Sunni Muslims have taken refuge in the province, fleeing areas which have been held by Islamist militants in neighboring Daraa Province. They represent a small portion of the 6.5 million internally displaced Syrians who predominantly reside in government-controlled areas of the country.

Meanwhile, the Syrian air force reportedly managed to destroy a spate of Islamic militant strongholds to the east of Damascus, killing dozens of terrorists and wounding many more.

Late last week, Syrian warplanes pummeled the militants’ positions in the towns of Hazarma, al-Nashabiyah and Hosh al-Farah.

Adding to the Syrian army’s anti-Daesh effort is the Russian air campaign, which was launched on September 30, 2015, when more than fifty Russian warplanes, including Su-24M, Su-25 and Su-34 jets, commenced precision airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar Assad.