Alwaght – The mop-up operation has been
completed by the Syrian army and Hezbollah in a strategic area in al-Zabadani,
Southwestern Syria, in which a whole district has been purged from terrorists.
Lebanese sources announced on
Tuesday that Hay al-Sultani district of Zabadani was purged of terrorists,
Tens of terrorists were killed and
dozens were injured in heavy clashes with the Syrian army and Hezbollah
fighters.
This offensive is part of a wider
operation launched by Syria and Hezbollah since May 4, which has reportedly
driven militants out of more than 90 percent of the territory previously
controlled by them in mountainous Qalamoun region.
Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian
national military are engaged in a wide-scale military campaign against the
Takfiri groups operating across Syria. Cleansing operations included so far
Arsal barrens, Qalamoun region and Zabadani town.
Also in the past 24 hours, the
Syrian army stormed the strongholds of al-Nusra Front and pushed the terrorists
back from their positions in the Southwestern province of Quneitra.
The sources said that the army men
raided the positions of Nusra fighters in the villages of Um Batena and
al-Hamidiyeh, and force them to retreat from the battlefront.
Also, military sources in the
Central Hama province confirmed that the Syrian army's offensives against the
ISIS terrorists' positions and the airstrikes of the country's air forces on
the foreign-backed fighters' strongholds resulted in the killing and wounding
of several terrorists.
The Syrian army raided a convoy belonging
to ISIS vehicles in Kalib al-Thawr and Tabarit al-Diba to the East of Salamiya
city in Hama province, which resulted in the explosion of all vehicles and
their cargo.
Meantime, a number of the ISIS
members were killed and injured in the above mentioned operations.
The Syrian warplanes airstrikes
against hideouts of “al-Nusra Front” in Kafar Zita town, resulted in the
killing of several terrorists, including Samer al-Rajab, the leader of a terrorist
group in the province.
Elsewhere, the Syrian air raids
claimed the lives of two senior ISIS leaders in the Eastern and Northeastern
parts of Syria.
According to reports, top ISIS
leader Amer al-Rafdan was killed in Syrian airstrikes in the Eastern province
of Deir Ezzur.
Another Takfiri leader known as Abu
Osama al-Iraqi was killed in the Northeastern Syrian province of Hasaka.
The development came as the Syrian
army has launched a major offensive to push out the ISIS terrorists from the
Arab country.
