04 September 2014

Provinces, SANA - Units of the armed forces on Thursday launched wide-scale operations against terrorist organizations across the country, eliminating large numbers of them and destroying their equipment.

Units of the armed forces killed numbers of terrorists and wounded others, destroying a number of their vehicles in the city and countryside of the northern province of Aleppo.

A military source told SANA that army units killed and wounded many terrorists in the surrounding of the Citadel of Aleppo, al-Bab, Turkman Bareh, Abu Jabbar and al-Malah farms, al-Ramousa, Suleiman al-Halabi, al-Ashrafiyeh and al-Layrmoun in Aleppo and its countryside.

The source added that another army unit targeted a convoy of terrorists' cars on the international Aleppo-Hama highway near al-Zerba, destroying a number of them and killing all terrorists aboard them.

In al-A'zamia and al-Rashidin, another army unit killed numbers of terrorists and destroyed their weapons.

Army units carried out a series of operations against terrorist groups in Daraa al-Balad in the city of Daraa and in areas in the countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists in personnel and equipment.

A military source told SANA that units of the armed forces killed many terrorists and wounded others at the center of Ataman town, on the road of al-Yadouda-Ataman, near Ataman Dam and in the northern part of the town in the countryside of Daraa. A truck was destroyed in the operations with all terrorists aboard it killed.

The source added that other army units killed and injured a number of terrorists near Tal Al-Mahs northwest of Nimer and to the southwest of the granaries in al-Yadouda, Enkhil and al-Sheikh Saad in the countryside.

In Daraa al-Balad in the city, an army unit destroyed a convoy of terrorists' vehicles in the surrounding of Abu Huraira Mosque, leaving many of the terrorists dead and wounded.

© SANA (Syria Arab News Agency) 2014