TEHRAN (FNA)- A large number of Syrian Kurdish refugees who had fled to Turkey returned to Syria over the past 24 hours.

Thousands of Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, crossed the border from the Turkish border towns to Syria's Kurdish regions amid Turkey's tight security arrangements.

Also in the past 24 hours, the Syrian army and Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces targeted the meeting of the ISIL leaders in the Northern parts of Al-Qalamoun.

The artillery units of the army and the resistance movement hit the Takfiri terrorists' meeting in al-Qalamoun.

A number of ISIL commanders, including Abu Mossab Lahaf, Ossama Sho'ara, Ahmad Vardeh and Abu Katabeh were killed in the joint forces' attack on the meeting.

Meantime, the Syrian army purged a key oil supply route of the taint of ISIL terrorists near the ancient city of Palmyra.

According to reports, the reopening of the supply route came after the Syrian troops gained territory in the Western province of Homs on Monday.

Syrian forces seized full control of a strategic town in Homs after they flushed out the ISIL terrorists from the Western province.

Also, Hezbollah fighters along with Syrian troops pressed ahead with their military campaign against the ISIL in Qalamoun region and seized backed several more regions from the grip of the Takfiri terrorist group.

The joint forces took control of Shoba al-Bakareh, Shoba Salaja al-Barkan, Qarna Shoba al-Shekara, Shoba Beit Shakour and Zalil al-Haj Ali hilltops.

The Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters inflicted major losses on the ISIL terrorists, killing tens of them and injuring dozens more.

Elsewhere, dozens of the foreign-backed Takfiri militants were killed in military operations targeting their positions in the Syrian province of Homs, Central Syria, on Tuesday, FNA dispatches said.

The army destroyed a number of hideouts of ISIL terrorists in the surrounding areas of the town of al-Tofha in the Eastern outskirts of Homs province.

The Syrian troops are trying to restore security to the Eastern parts of Homs after they took full control of strategic oil fileds in the area.

Meantime, the former commander of the special police forces of Tajikistan's interior ministry who defected to join the ISIL in Syria was killed in a Syrian airstrike on his house in the city of Mohsen, media reports said.

Golmorad Halimov was killed in an air raid, but another notorious ISIL terrorist named Abu Omar Checheni was wounded, the Russian-language Azadegan news website reported on Monday.

Halimov joined ISIL in Syria in late April and after one month since his disappearance he announced that he had joined the Takfiri terrorist group in a video tape.

Elsewhere, a group of Syrian Druz residents attacked an Israeli ambulance in the occupied Golan Heights and claimed the life of a Takfiri terrorist.

The wounded terrorist was killed near the Druze town of Majdal Shams on Monday as he was being transported to Israel for treatment.

The Israeli ambulance was carrying two wounded Takfiri militants near the Druze town in the Southern foothills of Jabal al-Shaykh mountain, North of the Golan Heights, when it was raided by more than 150 residents.

One of the terrorists succumbed to its injuries after the attack as they were being airlifted to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

Two Israeli troops also suffered slight injuries in the attack and were taken to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed.

Meantime, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria took back an important town from ISIL control in Northern Syria.

The Kurdish forces seized back Ain Issa town from the Takfiri terrorists in Reqqa province.

The capture of Ain Issa came right after the YPG forces regained control of the Syrian army's Division 93 Base in Reqqa from the ISIL.

The Kurdish forces tightened their grip over the Ain Issa after they took back Division 93 Base which eventually led to the capture of the Kurdish town.

Tens of ISIL terrorists were killed and dozens more injured in heavy clashes with the Kurdish forces in fighting over Ain Issa.

Ain Issa is of strategic importance because it links Aleppo to Hasaka. The town is located to the South of Tal Abyad which was recently won back.

Also, Kurdish forces have located a 400-meter-long tunnel near the Turkish border with Syria through which ISIL terrorists infiltrated into the Arab country.

According to YPG units, the detection of the tunnel came after the Kurdish fighters liberated Tal Abyad from the grip of the ISIL terrorists.

Hundreds of Takfiri militants are said to have used the tunnel to cross into Syria and wreak havoc on the Arab country.

Latest reports suggested that thousands of foreign militants had joined ISIL ranks via Turkey.

The retaking of Tal Abyad has effectively cut off ISIL's supply lines into the Syrian city of Raqqa.

By Fars News Agency