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| Syrian Army storms jihadist-held Al-Qaboun in east Damascus |
| 2017-03-24 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shifted their attention from Jobar on Thursday to the jihadist-held suburb of al-Qaboun, striking Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s positions at a number of flanks. Backed by heavy According to an al-Masdar field correspondent in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army has not made any significant gains as of yet; however, this assault is meant to weaken the jihadist resolve before they launch the main assault. Syrian Army Continues operations in Damascus’s Jobar [AlManar] A military source said on Thursday the Syrian army units continued military operations successfully along several axes in Jobar neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, inflicting heavy losses upon terrorists. Earlier SANA reporter in Damascus said army units carried out military operations on al-Nusra Front and other Takfiri terrorist groups affiliated to it north of Jobar neighborhood and Eastern Gouta in the countryside of Damascus. The military operations targeted the positions to which the terrorist groups infiltrated on Tuesday in the surroundings of the textile factories, north of Jobar neighborhood, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists in personnel and equipment. The army operations on the terrorist positions north of Jobar neighborhood during the past two days left more than 157 terrorists dead, among them foreign terrorists and self-claimed leaders and hundreds others injured in addition to destroying three booby-trapped vehicles before arriving to the army posts, three tanks, four armored vehicles, 5 mortar launcher, 3 cannons and 15 machine gun-equipped vehicles. The source added that the army shelled the terrorists’ movement axes and supply routes coming from the Eastern Ghouta towards north of Jobar neighborhood inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment. |
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