Syrian Army Makes Major Advance in Sweida Desert

The Syrian Army troops kicked off a large-scale operation to hunt the remaining pockets of ISIL in Sweida Desert in Southern Syria on Saturday and managed to advance against the terrorists in three flanks.

News ID: 70614

Date: 09 June 2018 - 15:03

TEHRAN (Defapress)-The army forces, backed up by the artillery units and Air Force, engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL in Northeastern Sweida, seizing control over al-Mosheirefeh School and Rahbat al-Mosheirefeh area near Khirbet al-Ambashi region.

Also, the army men drove ISIL out of the village of al-Ashrafiyeh and Ba'ar al-Oureh regin in Northeastern Sweida.

In the meantime, field sources reported that the army soldiers stormed ISIL's position in three flanks in a desert-like region in Northeastern Sweida, adding that the army forces managed to reach Souh al-Majidi region after advancing towards Khirbet al-Ambashi from Tal Asfar flank.

They added that the army men, operating in the second flank, managed to advance as deep as 7km from Qasra al-Saqiyeh toward Khirbet al-Ambashi in the East.

In the third flank, they went on to say, the government forces managed to advance against ISIL 10km from al-Zalaf towards Taloul al-Safa in North.

Field sources said on Thursday that the army sent a large number of troops and military equipment from Dara'a to Tal (Hill) Asfar region North-East of Sweida province.

They noted that hundreds of Syrian army soldiers and heavy military equipment were dispatched to the hills of Ashhib and Salman West of Tal Asfar in Northeastern Sweida, and said that the Syrian army was intending to cleanse Badiyeh from the ISIL remnants.

Meantime, the Syrian air force also pounded the ISIL's military positions in Tal Sa'ad and al-Tamsouneh regions in Northeastern Sweida.

The terrorists, meantime, planted landmines along the roads linking the areas controlled by the Syrian army in Tal Asfar and Eastern Badiyeh in Sweida province.

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