SANA’s reporter in Deir Ezzor said that army units engaged in sporadic clashes with ISIL terrorists at the southern and southwestern axes and in the surroundings of the Airport, killing scores of them.
The reporter indicated that one of the leaders of ISIL, terrorist Khaled al-Naser, was identified among the terrorists killed in the village of al-Bu Omar, 5 km east of Deir Ezzor city.
The clashes were accompanied by airstrikes carried out by the Syrian Air Force against ISIL fortifications in the neighborhoods of Knamat, Mi’abar Knamat and Hwaijet Sakar and in the area of al-Panorama, as an artillery piece used by ISIL was destroyed, a number of terrorists were killed, and others were injured.
The reporter added that ISIL terrorists continued to shell the neighborhoods of al-Joura, al-Qosour and al-Muwazafin, causing only material damage.
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