THE SYRIAN ARMY LAUNCHES WIDE MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISTS IN ADRA- DAMASCUS COUNTRYSIDE

21-9-2014 12.45AM IST

Medhaj News: The Army on Saturday continued to launch successful military operations against the terrorist organizations in several areas across the country, inflicting heavy losses upon them.

Units of the armed forces also launched a wide scale military operation towards Adraa al-Balad in Damascus countryside and cordoned off the town, eliminating large numbers of terrorists and destroying their equipment.

Army units also targeted gatherings of terrorists in the areas of al-Rawda Street in Khan al-Sheeh farms and al-Hindi farm at Nestle street in the countryside, leaving many terrorists dead and others wounded.

Meanwhile, Units of the armed forces killed scores of terrorists and injured others, among them non-Syrians, as they targeted their gatherings in several villages in the countryside of the central province of Homs, in addition to destroying their vehicles and ammunition.

A military source said that army units targeted terrorists’ gatherings in al-Habra al-Gharbiye and Mas’ada in the eastern countryside of the province, killing several terrorists and destroying four cars equipped with heavy machineguns.

The source added that the army foiled two infiltration attempts by terrorists into al-Wae’r orchards and Um Sharshouh town, killing a number of terrorists and destroying a vehicle.

Another army unit killed several terrorists in al-Teibeh in al-Houleh area in Homs countryside, destroying a car which they were using east to al-Teibeh bridge.

Other terrorists were killed and injured near the sulfur factory in al-Rastan area, including one f their leaders, terrorist Yehia al-Ashtar.

In the same context, units of the armed forces targeted terrorists’ gatherings in Wadi al-Meir in the southern countryside of al-Qseir.

A truck and a car carrying terrorists and ammunition as well as a vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun were also destroyed in Rasm Hamida village.

The army killed a number of terrorists and their leaders in Idleb countryside, destroying their vehicles and a factory for hand-made rockets in Ma’arat al-Numan.

Army targeted a gatherings for terrorists near the town of Binnish, killing several terrorists, among them Ahmad Suleiman Maznouk.

Army units killed and injured many terrorists and destroyed their vehicles in Daraa southern province.

Army units targeted gatherings of terrorists in the surrounding of Mansharet al-Hajar in Ataman town and in the surrounding of Khirbat Ghazala in the countryside of the province, leaving a number of them dead and injured.

The sources added that a unit of the armed forces killed many terrorists and destroyed a car equipped with a heavy machinegun they were using in the town of Deir al-Adas in the countryside.

Three cars were also destroyed to the south of Busr al-Harir in the eastern countryside, and all terrorists onboard were killed.