Meanwhile , the Army and Armed Forces units, backed by the Syrian Air Force, destroyed ISIL gatherings and fortifications in Deir Ezzor province.
A military source told SANA on Sunday that the army units destroyed ISIL hideouts after carrying out intensive strikes against them in the surroundings of the Cemeteries, Alloush Hill and al-Howeiqa neighborhood in Deir Ezzor, killing 20 ISIL terrorists at least.
In the same context, SANA’s reporter in Deir Ezzor said that army units carried out concentrated operations against ISIL positions and movements in the Cemeteries area, Thardah, the Panorama, and in the surroundings of Regiment 137.
The reported added that the Army operations left a number of ISIL terrorists dead or injured in addition to destroying their positions, fortifications, and amounts of weapons and ammunition.
Meanwhile, local sources said that a number of ISIL terrorist organization’s members have fled the province, among them “Abu Obadah al-Shami,” who was the head of the so-called “office of the Caliphate youth,” along with his family.
The sources added that the ISIL terrorists killed 4 civilians and injured others on al- Kasra-Abu Khasab road, 70 km northwest of Deir Ezzor city, in addition to shooting dead 5 others while they were trying to escape from al-Qasabi village in the western countryside across the Euphrates River.
Two days ago, the ISIL terrorists executed terrorists Abu Asbat al-Sudani, emir of the so -called repentance closed institutes in the city and its surroundings, while a number of ISIL leaders fled, including a terrorist nicknamed “Abu al-Hawraa al-Tunisi.”
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