TEHRAN (Defapress)- The army soldiers, backed up by the artillery and missile units, engaged in tough battle with ISIL Northwest of Yarmouk Camp and captured several more buildings.
Also, other units of the army drove ISIL out of several buildings, including the Computer High School and Shafei Mosque Northwest of Hajar al-Aswad region.
In the meantime, the army aircraft conducted a heavy strike on the positions of ISIL's remaining pockets in Hajar al-Aswad and Yarmouk, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.
Earlier repots said that the army men found a network of tunnels under residential buildings in Hajar al-Aswad used by terrorists as hideout for moving arms and ammunition across the region.
The army soldiers, meantime, discovered a large volume of chemical and explosive materials for making bombs in terrorists' positions in the region.
In the meantime, the army forces, backed up by artillery units and warplanes, managed to advance against terrorists in al-Zein neighborhood and reached al-Aroubeh street in al-Taqadom neighborhood after capturing several key points.
A field sources said that the army is about to drive a wedge between the remaining ISIL-held regions in Southern Damascus.
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