ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Syrian army and air force launched attacks against Islamist groups in Deir Ezzor, Daraa and Hama on Saturday, killing “tens of terrorists,” wounding many and wiping out Islamic State (ISIS) militants altogether from Deir Ezzor’s southwest, the SANA news agency reported.
In Deir Ezzor, “an army unit carried out on Saturday an operation against ISIS terrorists’ gatherings and fortifications in Um Abboud hill, establishing complete control over it after killing dozens of the terrorists,” state-run SANA said. The offensive eliminated “the last gathering of ISIS terrorists there,” the report claimed.
The agency also reported clashes with ISIS in two Deir Ezzor neighborhoods in which regime forces inflicted “heavy losses upon the terrorists.”
“Later, army artillery shells were fired on a gathering of vehicles for ISIS terrorists in the farms near the Panorama area on the southwestern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city. Five vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed as a result of the operation,” SANA said.
In the southern and eastern countryside of Idlib province, the air force targeted the Jaish al-Fateh Islamist group, “killing a number of its members,” SANA said, citing an unidentified source.
In the city of Daraa in the south, an army unit targeted the Jabhat al-Nusra Islamist group, SANA said, “leaving many of its members dead or injured, while their fortifications were destroyed.”
“A gathering of ISIS terrorists was also targeted in al-Qasr village, 40 km east of Sweida city, where many of them were killed or injured,” according to SANA.
