Syria in Past 24 Hours: Army Dispatches New Military Convoy to Quneitra Province

The Syrian Army sent more troops and military equipment to Quneitra province on Wednesday to pave the ground for an imminent anti-terrorism operation in the Southern part of the country.

News ID: 70455

Date: 31 May 2018 - 16:15

TEHRAN (Defapress)-The army dispatched a large number of forces of the Fourth Division and President Guard Force along with a large volume of military equipment to Hadhar region in Quneitra.

The army is preparing to launch a large-scale operation in Southern Syria if reconciliation talks with militants fail.

The army's operation is expected to be launched in Northern Quneitra and later continues in Dara'a province.

Aleppo

The Syrian Army dispatched more soldiers and equipment to Western Aleppo on Wednesday to launch an imminent assault to clean up the region from the remaining pockets of terrorists.

The army sent a new convoy of fresh soldiers and military hardware to Western Aleppo to face the small pockets of the terrorist groups that are still in the region.

The new military convoy will head towards the Northwestern countryside of Aleppo to launch an imminent operation in the Western direction of Jam'iyat al-Zahra region.

Residents of the Western countryside of Aleppo city have in distress calls asked the army to restore sustainable security to al-Nile Street, al-Khalediye and al-Shahba al-Jadideh.

Idlib

Terrorists of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) are feeling deeply concerned due to the continued assassination of its commanders and attacks by rival militant groups in Idlib province, field sources said on Wednesday.

The sources said that a bomb-laden vehicle went off at a base of Tahrir al-Sham in the town of al-Dana, leaving a number of terrorists dear or wounded, adding that three more blasts were reported right after the al-Dana explosion.

Tahrir al-Sham has kept forces on alert in the towns and settlements of al-Dana, Samada, Salqin and Jisr al-Shughour, launching a fresh round of arrests in the region, the sources said.

Then went on to say that Tahrir al-Sham arrested almost 30 women in the town of Salqin in Northern Idlib, accusing them of affiliation to the ISIL.

Damascus

Hundreds of ex-militants that had earlier handed over their weapons received government's pardoning in Bebeila region on Wednesday approximately 20 days after the Syrian Army imposed control over Southern Damascus.

A sum of 800 militants that had laid down their arms and endorsed the peace agreement with the army in Bebeila received government's amnesty.

The government has recently started granting amnesty to the militants in Northern Homs and Southern Hama.

Raqqa

People in several neighborhoods in the town of Raqqa poured into the streets on Wednesday and called for expulsion of the US and French forces from their region as tensions between the Washington-backed militants and civilians in Northeastern Syria have gone high.

A large number of people in al-Mashlab, Seif al-Dowleh and al-Saqiyeh streets protested against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The demonstrators called for exit of American and French occupiers from Raqqa city, but, SDF opened fire at them in Jameh al-Hassan neighborhood.

The SDF further declared curfew in the city and dispatched a large volume of military equipment to Raqqa city.

The Kurdish militias then increased their patrols and checkpoints in Raqqa city.

Local sources reported that the Kurdish militias prevented rescue and aid workers from entering Romeileh neighborhood whose residents demonstrated against the SDF.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian Army troops fended off two heavy offensives of ISIL terrorists in Eastern Deir Ezzur on Wednesday, inflicting major losses on the militants.

The army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL and warded off their attack in a desert near Sabikhan settlement.

In the meantime, other units of the army repelled ISIL's attack in the town of al-Sahlehiyeh, East of Sabikhan, inflicting a number of casualties on the terrorists and destroying their military equipment.

Hama

A number of terrorists' positions, including arms depots, were destroyed in heavy assaults of the Syrian Army troops and Air Force in Northern Hama on Wednesday.

The fighter jets pounded terrorists' positions and movements in the towns of Kafr Naboudeh and al-Latamina in Northern Hama.

The air raids were launched to retaliate terrorists' attack on Mahradah thermal Power Plan and the town of Sahlab and its outskirts in Hama province.

Terrorists' arms and ammunition depots were targeted and destroyed in the airstrikes.

Also, the artillery and missile units launched a heavy shelling on the positions of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at near the towns of Morek, Kafr Zita and al-Latamina, killing and wounding a large number of terrorists and destroying their military hardware.

In the meantime, the army soldiers cut off the road connecting al-Zalaqiyat to al-Latamina following repeated attacks of the terrorists on Mahrada thermal Power Plant, the town of Mahradah and army positions in the region.