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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Continues Operations after Ghouta Advance
2015-09-27
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army forces continued operations against holy warriors on Friday, killing more of them and destroying their positions after its advance in Damascus's Eastern Ghouta yesterday, where its units established full control over all hills overlooking it from the western side.

Army units targeted terrorists' positions and movements in Ein al-Beida and Jbata al-Khashab villages in the northern countryside of the southern Quneitra province, a military source told SANA on Friday.

Many bad boyz were potted and their weapons were destroyed in the area, which is considered one of the terrorist organizations' supply routes across the Zionist entity.

More bad boyz were potted and a heavy machine gun mounted on a vehicle was destroyed in Ufania village and the adjacent Sahi hill, according to the source.

Army units also killed a number of al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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 holy warriors in al-Hamidiyeh village, 7 km north of Quneitra city.

In the neighboring Daraa province, an army unit killed a number of holy warriors and destroyed their ammunition and arms in al-Sheikh Miskin in the northern countryside.

A number of vehicles, some of them equipped with heavy machinegun, were destroyed and many al-Nusra bad boyz were potted in army operations against their hideouts and gatherings in the vicinity of al-Sultan gas station on Daraa-Gharaz road.

The army also targeted terrorists' positions to the south of Syriatel telecommunication company's building in Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in the city of Daraa.

Army forces in Syria have flushed foreign-backed Death Eaters out of the routes linking the capital, Damascus, to the western city of Homs.

On Thursday, the Syrian troops established control over the hills overlooking the Eastern Ghouta region east of Damascus after eliminating the members of the so-called Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
terrorist group and destroying their weapons and ammunition.

The Death Eaters had cut off the supply routes by taking control of the top hills.

Army forces also carried out several operations in the city of Harasta, likewise located in the capital's suburbs.
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