Provinces, SANA_ The Syrian Army, backed by the air force, on Thursday continued heavy military operations on the fortified positions of the terrorist groups, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.

Homs

Units of the army and armed forces carried out an operation against gatherings of the ISIS terrorist organization in the eastern countryside of Homs central province.

A military source told SANA that units of the army destroyed hotbeds of the ISIS terrorists in the villages of Sallam Gharbi and Unq al-Hawa, 73 km to the east of Homs City.

Army units also destroyed ISIS gatherings and hideouts in Sallam Gharbi and Unq al-Hawa in the eastern countryside of Homs.

Hama

Syrian army air force destroyed ISIS vehicles, some equipped with machineguns and loaded with terrorists east of Khanaser town in�the northeastern outskirts of Hama province.

The army killed a number of the ISIS members and injured others�after targeting their gatherings and movement axes east of the town.

Daraa

An army unit targeted two terrorist�groups of Jabhat al-Nusra while their members were�conducting fortification works and demolishing the�houses at al-Abbasiyeh and Daraa al-Mahata�neighborhoods, in Daraa province.

The army killed�and injured most of the two terrorist groups��members and destroyed their equipment and criminal�tools.

Another army unit destroyed Jabhat al-Nusra mortar�pads and a motorcycle and killed a number of�terrorists in Daraa al-Balad area.

Quneitra

An army unit carried out a military operation against a terrorist group in the ruined part of Quneitra city, destroying a vehicle equipped with a machinegun and killing or injuring many of the terrorists.
A field source told SANA that an army unit in cooperation with popular defense groups in Khan Arnaba destroyed a terrorists� tunnel near Abu Shabta site on al-Hamidiyeh-Jebbata al-Khashab road in the northern countryside of the Province.

The source added that destroying the tunnel will help block the road the terrorists use for transferring weapons and ammunition and for their movement as well as their targeting the residential neighborhoods in al-Baath city.

Sweida

An army unit thwarted two ISIS�terrorist attacks on Tal Zalfaa and Abu Harat
village in the northeastern countryside of Sweida�province.

An army�unit clashed with armed terrorist groups which�attempted to infiltrate from al-Badia towards the�village of Abu Harat and Tal Zalfaa, about 50 km�northeast of Sweida city.

The source added that the army destroyed ISIS�vehicles, some equipped with machineguns and�killed and injured most of terrorists.

Damascus Countryside

Army units retaliated the breach of the cessation of hostilities agreement by terrorists and target a number of their positions and gatherings in the eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside.

An army unit destroyed�one of the gatherings of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in Khan al-Shih in Damascus countryside.

The army units�targeted the terrorist organizations� positions in�the eastern Ghouta (al-Ghouta al-Sharqiyeh).

The army�inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorist�organizations in personnel and equipment, killing�and injuring a number of their members.

By SANA