Feb 15, 2017, 3:02 PM

Syrian army targets ISIL terrorists in Deir Ezzor

Syrian army targets ISIL terrorists in Deir Ezzor

DEIR EZZOR, Feb. 15 (MNA) – Army units targeted with intensive strikes gatherings and movements of ISIL terrorists in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city and its western countryside during the past 24 hours.

SANA’s reporter in the province said that the army’s artillery destroyed fortifications and positions for ISIL in al-Bghailieh village in the western countryside of the city, inflicting heavy losses in personnel and weaponry upon the terrorists.

In the surroundings of Deir Ezzor city, the reporter said that the army units, backed by supporting forces, continued operations in the rest of areas which terrorists had infiltrated in the surrounding of graveyards area, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists and destroying many of their fortifications.

The reporter noted that the Air Force is still airdropping food supplies for the garrison of the military airport and the locals in the city and other areas in the province, pointing out that that the Deir Ezzor branch of Syrian Arab Red Crescent is distributing the airdropped aid among citizens.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Air Force carried out strikes targeting gatherings and positions of the ISIL-affiliated “Jund al-Aqsa” terrorist organization in the southern part of Idleb province.

SANA’s reporter in Hama province said that 20 terrorists from Jund al-Aqsa were killed and several of their positions were destroyed in the villages of Kafar Ain and Madaia at the far south of Idleb province.

Moreover,a military source told SANA that army units have killed and injured 74 terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra in al-Nazihin neighborhood, Kom al-Rumman, and Tal Shihab in Daraa.

SANA/MNA

News ID 123590

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