Hama: Syrian Army Gives Ultimatum to Militants, Smashes Terrorists' Convoy

The Syrian army gave an ultimatum to the terrorists in Northern Hama to surrender, field sources said on Thursday, adding that a convoy of militants which was moving towards the army was pounded.

News ID: 70461

Date: 31 May 2018 - 17:03

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The sources said that the Syrian army helicopters distributed leaflets over the towns and villages of Northern Hama, calling on the terrorists to lay down arms and surrender to the army forces.

Meantime, the Syrian army's artillery and missile units in the village of Tal Malah in Northern Hama targeted the terrorists in the village of al-Jaisat who were approaching the army positions.

The sources also said that the Syrian forces destroyed several military vehicles of the terrorists, killing a large number of them.

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

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 (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) 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.

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