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Syrian forces recapture area near Damascus
[Iran Press TV] Syrian government forces have killed dozens of foreign-backed gunnies across the country in anti-terror operations, including one that fully liberated an area on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military source, reported that on Thursday, army units established full control over al-Taqi Mosque and its surrounding area to the north of Khan al-Shih Farms near Damascus, and killed a number of turbans and destroyed their weapons in the process.

The Syrian forces also managed to destroy a command center and a 150-meter long tunnel used by turbans to carry out attacks in Jobar neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital.

Syrian army warplanes also carried out Arclight airstrikes against terrorists’ positions in Khan Touman southwest of Aleppo, killing dozens of them. The government forces also thwarted a myrmidon attack in the vicinity of Minian village to the west of city, destroying two bomb-laden cars and killing several other myrmidons.

The Syrian jets also pounded terrorists’ positions in al-Rastan, Deir Ful, Abu al-Tababaer and Khan al-Surah near the western city of Homs, destroying a number of their vehicles. The Syrian ground troops also foiled a ISIS strike near Unq al-Hawa village, some 73 kilometers east of Homs, killing a number of turbans and inflicting injuries on some others.

Elsewhere in the countryside of the western city of Hama, Syrian army Arclight airstrikes left a large number of gunnies dead and destroyed some of their vehicles. The Syrian soldiers had raided a weapons warehouse used by the gunnies in the southern parts of the city, seizing a large cache of ammunition and poisonous agents.

The army units also destroyed a command center of the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
 Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 Front, in the southwestern town of Yadoudah in Dara'a province, and killing a number of the terrorists.

The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, according to an estimate by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. Backed by the Russian air cover, the Syrian military is engaged in an operation to rid the country of ISIS and other terrorist groups.


Posted by: Fred 2016-11-04
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