Syrian Army Drives ISIL out of More Strategic Lands in Eastern Homs

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian Army troops hit ISIL terrorists' defense lines hard in Eastern Homs and imposed full control over several villages on Saturday.

News ID: 65879

Date: 09 September 2017 - 13:44

The army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL Southeast of Jubb al–Jarrah and captured the villages of Abu Qatour, Abu Liyeh and Jubb Habal.

Over 20 ISIL terrorists were killed in several-hour long clashes with the army.

Furthermore, the army's artillery and missile units targeted ISIL militants as they were retreating from the newly secured towns and villages.

The army units also pushed ISIL back from the villages of al-Moshirfeh, Rasm al-Saba, Mazar al-Sayyad, Habra al-Sharqi East of Um al-Jom'ah Southeast of Jubb al-Jarrah, leaving over 25 terrorists dead and forcing their remaining pockets to retreat from the battlefield.

ISIL is experiencing a total military collapse in the face of the Syrian Army and popular forces at both the Northern (Eastern Hama) and Southern (North-central Homs) flanks of Central Syria.

Relevant reports said on Friday that the army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL and drove them out of the villages of Rasm Hamidah and al-Habra al-Qarbi and several hills and mountains overlooking Southeast of Jubb al-Jarrah.

The army men killed a number of terrorists and destroyed their military equipment in the clashes.

Field sources confirmed that the remaining pockets of ISIL terrorists retreated towards the depth of Badiyeh (desert) following the army advances.