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Thursday 20 February 2014 - 08:41

Syrian Army Advances in Aleppo, Kills Scores of Terrorists across Country

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Syrian Army Advances in Aleppo, Kills Scores of Terrorists across Country
Army units eliminated a number of terrorists from Jabhet al-Nusra in a series of precise operations targeting their hideouts in the farms of al-Sahel and al-Mashrafeh towns, Rima farms, and near Yabroud in Damascus Countryside.
 
Other units destroyed terrorists hideouts in al-Batra’a quarries east of al-Rihaibe, in Aliya and al-Asha’ari farms in Douma area, and in Khan al-Sheih and its farms, leaving a number of terrorists dead or injured, while more units clashed with terrorists in the town of Daraya and killed a number of them.
 
Members of a terrorist group were left dead or injured and their weapons were destroyed in the town of Erbin, while a number of terrorists from the Islamic Front were killed in a special operation by an army unit which targeted their hideout in Adra workers city.
 
Army units also clashed with terrorists in Harasta and Jobar, killing a number of them including terrorist group leader Ala’a al-Khatib.
 
On a relevant note, a number of terrorists were killed when infighting broke between two terrorist groups in Harasta. Among the dead terrorists was Mazen al-Saleh.
 
Five citizens, two of them children, were killed in terrorist attacks in Damascus countryside.
 
A source at Damascus Countryside Police Command told SANA that terrorists detonated two explosive devices in the towns of Jdaidet al-Wadi on Tuesday evening, claiming the lives of five civilians, including a mother and her two children, in addition to injuring others and causing material damage to buildings.
 
The source said that terrorists also fired a mortar round at the Police Hospital in Harasta, causing material damage but no injuries, in addition to firing another mortar which landed at the outskirts of Qudsaya and caused material damage to parked cars.
 
In the town of Mhardeh in Hama province, two citizens were killed and others were injured by a rocket shell fired by terrorists on Tuesday night.
 
A source at Hama Police Command told SANA that the rocket shell targeted the eastern part of the town, claiming two lives, injuring six, and causing material damage to houses.
 
Terrorists' mortar shells claimed the lives of three citizens in the city of Idleb and the villages of al-Mastoumeh and al-Foua in the northern countryside of the province on Tuesday evening.
 
A source at the Police Command in the province said that terrorists fired three mortar shells on al-Saba Bahrat roundabout and al-Jalaa Street in the city of Idleb, causing the death of a woman and material damage to the area.
 
The source added that terrorists fired seven mortar shells on al-Foua village, claiming the lives of a man and a woman.
 
Moreover, three citizens were injured by a mortar shell the terrorists' fired on al-Mastoumeh village.
 
A source told SANA that an army unit killed six terrorists in Mzerib town in Daraa and destroyed a gathering in the area surrounding a food cannery, adding that the bodies of Monzer Mohammad al-Hashish and Salah Eddin al-Hashish were identified among the killed terrorists.
 
The source added that an army unit thwarted a terrorists' attempt of detonating an explosive device near the entrance of Mehja town on Daraa-Damascus road.
 
The army units targeted and destroyed terrorists’ hideouts in many areas in Aleppo and its countryside.
 
A military source told SANA that the army clashed with terrorists in the neighborhoods of Bani Zaid, al-Haydaryeh, al-Inzarat, al-Sakhour, Masaken Hanano and Bustan al-Qasr and in the areas of Jdeida, Kweires, al-Bureej, al-Surbus, al-Aweja, al-Hussamyeh, Handarat, Rasm al-Abboud, the Industrial Zone, al-Hamima and near Aleppo Central Prison, killing and injuring scores of terrorists.
 
The army also targeted and destroyed vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition in the areas of al-Atareb, al-Maysar and Aourm and killed all the terrorists riding in them.
 
An army unit destroyed terrorist gatherings in the villages of Kafr Laha, al-Dar al-Kabireh and Kisin in Homs countryside, in addition to destroying cars loaded with weapons between the villages of Burj Qai’ee and Teldo in al-Houleh area.
 
Another unit eliminated terrorists and injured others in the town of al-Rastan and between the villages of Oum al-Reesh and Rasm al-Arnab in the eastern countryside.
 
In Talbiseh countryside, an army unit carried out a special operation in which it destroyed a terrorist training camp belonging to the Islamic Front in al-Sa’en area, destroying a number of cars equipped with heavy machineguns and other equipment.
 
Thirty five terrorists were killed and four machine-equipped vehicles were destroyed in an ambush in the village of Qmeinas in Idleb, while another unit killed several terrorists in Failon village in the province, according to a source.
 
The source added that an army unit destroyed the so-called 'Sharia court' that belongs to the armed terrorist groups near the area of Bab al-Hawa on the borders with Turkey.
 
Army units eliminated terrorists and destroyed their weapons in the villages of Kourin, Tal Salmo, al-Majas and al-Shoueha in Abu al-Duhour area.
 
Armed terrorist groups were eliminated in al-Roshdiyeh neighborhood in the city of Deir-Ezzor, a source said, adding that the body of the terrorist Mohammad Nader Qarasli was identified among the dead.
 
The source said that army units destroyed a number of terrorists' cars near al-Baath bridge and foiled their attempt of attacking the airport on the outskirts of the city of Deir-Ezzor.
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