SANA- Army and Armed Forces units, in�cooperation with popular defense groups,�established full control over a number of�strategic hills in the surroundings of Salba�village to the east of�Salamiyeh�city.

SANA�s reporter said that this was achieved after�carrying out intensive operations against ISIS�terrorists and eliminating their latest gatherings�in the area, adding that army units found a
tunnel network in the hills which the terrorists�were using to move and store ammunition and food�supplies.

Deir Ezzor�

Syrian Army units engaged in�clashes with ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups southwestern of Deir Ezzor city, while the�Syrian Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes against their positions in the city and�the surrounding area.

Army units�killed a number of ISIS terrorists and injured others, destroying their arms and�ammunition in violent clashes at the axis of al -Bughailyia-al Panorama.

The Syrian Air Force�destroyed dens and hotbeds of ISIS terrorists and killed scores of them in intensive�airstrikes against their positions to the west of Deir Ezzor City, al-Mawared area,�Hwaijet Qati�a, al-Tharda roundabout, the surroundings of the Airport, and in the�neighborhoods of al-Hwaiqa, the Old Airport and al-Omal.

The airstrikes targeted fortifications of ISIS in�the villages of al Bughailyia, al- Junaina, al-Shoula, al-Shmaita and al-Tibni,�inflicting heavy losses upon them in the equipment and personnel.