DEIR EZZOR, May 07 (MNA) – The Syrian Air Force carried out intensive sorties over areas of ISIL gatherings and supply routes in the graveyards area, the brick factories, al-Majbal, al-Tharda, Wadi al-Tharda and al-Ommal neighborhood.

SANA reporter said the sorties resulted in the deaths of many terrorists, while others were injured. The terrorists’ weapons and equipment were destroyed.

Meanwhile, an army unit destroyed a vehicle with a machine gun mounted on it after targeting it with a guided-rocket in the graveyards area, leaving terrorists around the vehicle dead.

The army’s artillery also hit ISIL targets in Huweijet Sakr, Huweijet al-Mreiiyeh and al-Bugheiliyeh village in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor province.

Another army unit, in cooperation with the supporting forces, killed all members of a terrorist group near the power station on the southern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city.

A gathering of terrorists was also hit by an army unit in the surroundings of al-Tharda Mountain south of Deir Ezzor city. A vehicle equipped with a machine gun was destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed or injured.

In the meantime, local sources in al-Bukamal city said the terrorist Abu Ammar al-Iraqi, an official within ISIL, was killed in the city, in addition to Abu Sayyaf Hasarat.

In the northwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor, ISIL terrorists executed an 18 year-old man in al-Kubar area, according to local sources.

SANA/MNA