DEIR EZZOR, Jul. 26 (MNA) – Syrian Army and Armed Forces units on Tuesday clashed with ISIL terrorists in the southern axes of Deir Ezzor city and the surroundings of the Airport, inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment upon them.

SANA’s reporter said that the Syrian Air Force carried out during the past 24 hours intensive sorties targeting ISIL positions and
movements in the Kanamat neighborhood, the Panorama area, and Ma’adan Atiq in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.

As a result of the sorties, an ISIL training camp was destroyed and a number of terrorists were killed, including one of their leaders
Mohammad Sukker al-Khamis.

Meanwhile, local sources in the eastern countryside of the province said that a group of citizens destroyed 3 ISIL cars and killed 9 of its
members using an IED on Hajin-al-Bka’an crossings.

The sources added that Saudi terrorist “Jahiman Abu Hamzeh” who was one of the ISIL “emirs” responsible for armament in the Deir Ezzor Airport area was identified among the dead.

SANA/MNA