Syrian army establishes full control over strategic hills in Salamiyeh

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian Army and Armed Forces units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established full control over a number of strategic hills in the surroundings of Salba village to the east of Salamiyeh city.

News ID: 65575

Date: 13 August 2017 - 17:38

SANA’s reporter said that this was achieved after carrying out intensive operations against ISIL terrorists and eliminating their latest gatherings in the area, adding that army units found a

tunnel network in the hills which the terrorists were using to move and store ammunition and food supplies.

Meanwhile,Syrian Army units engaged in clashes with ISIL-affiliated terrorist groups southwestern of Deir Ezzor city, while the Syrian Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes against their positions in the city and the surrounding area.

Army units killed a number of ISIL terrorists and injured others, destroying their arms and ammunition in violent clashes at the axis of al -Bughailyia-al Panorama.

The Syrian Air Force destroyed dens and hotbeds of ISIL terrorists and killed scores of them in intensive airstrikes against their positions to the west of Deir Ezzor City, al-Mawared area, Hwaijet Qati’a, al-Tharda roundabout, the surroundings of the Airport, and in the neighborhoods of al-Hwaiqa, the Old Airport and al-Omal.

The airstrikes targeted fortifications of ISIL in the villages of al Bughailyia, al- Junaina, al-Shoula, al-Shmaita and al-Tibni, inflicting heavy losses upon them in the equipment and personnel.