Syrian Army Imposes Control over Another Region in Eastern Ghouta

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian Army troops stormed terrorists' strongholds on Sunday night after the end of a daily truce in Eastern Ghouta and imposed control over al-Shifouniyeh settlement.

News ID: 69017

Date: 05 March 2018 - 13:40

The army men carried out another night operation in Hawsh al-Zawaherah region and pushed terrorists back from the strategic settlement of al-Shifouniyeh.

A field sources reported that the army men cut off a main road to the town of Douma after seizing back al-Shifouniyeh and deployed at the gates of Douma, a main terrorist bastion in Eastern Ghouta.

Tens of terrorists were killed or wounded and a number of military vehicles, several tunnels and trenches of terrorists were destroyed or seized in the attack.

Also, other units of the army, deployed in al-Reihan Farms East of Douma, advanced towards the key town.

Spokesman for the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Brigadier General Vladimir Zolotokhin said Sunday that the terrorist groups carried out a heavy mortar attack on a medical center in Eastern Ghouta during the daily ceasefire in the region.

Zolotokhin reported that the terrorist groups, deployed in Eastern Ghouta, carried out mortar attack on a medical center near a checkpoint West of the village of al-Reihanah, adding that six more mortar shells landed 200 to 400 meters away from the center.

He further said that the terrorists have embarked on periodical sniper attacks at checkpoints erected at the humanitarian corridor near al-Wafedeen camp, violating the ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta.

The brigadier general said that civilians are still unable to leave Eastern Damascus via the newly-set up humanitarian corridor due to the terrorist groups' sniper and mortar attacks on the corridor, adding that the terrorists have fortified their positions in residential units, using women, children and the old as human shield.