Provinces, SANA – Units of the army and the armed forces eliminated large numbers of members of terrorist organizations amid large-scale military operations carried out across the country, including 47 Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, who were killed in Quneitra.
Damascus Countryside
Army units established full control over the town of Kfeir Yabous, which is located southwest of al-Zabadani in Damascus Countryside, 11 km from the Lebanese borders, killing scores of terrorists in the process, most of them from Jabhet al-Nusra.
The army continued to advance in the direction of al-Zabadani’s western mountains, destroying several terrorist hideouts and killing many terrorists including Khaldoun Omar, Khaled al-Tinawi, Abdelhakim al-Maghrebi, Adel Kanaan, Rateb al-Haj, and Omeir al-Khous.
In the Eastern Ghouta, army units inflicted heavy losses on terrorists in a series of precise operations targeting their hideouts and concentrations near al-Rashid Mosque in Tal Kerdi farms and in al-Rihan farms southeast of Douma.
These operations resulted in the death of several terrorists including Kayed Shumari from Saudi Arabia, Salman Rashed al-Abdat from Jordan, Abdelrahman Taleb, Naeem Saymeh, and Fouad Damnawi.
In Douma itself, army units performed concentrated strikes on terrorist hideouts near Badran roundabout and near al-Huda Mosque, resulting in the death of a number of terrorists including Mufid al-Najjar, Mohammad Jerudi, Obada al-Qtaifani, Yasin al-Raslan, Abdelrahman al-Juaidani, and Alaa al-Jobarani.
In the southern part of Eastern Ghouta, an army units destroyed a weapons and ammo cache in Zebdin in al-Mleiha area, while other units prevented terrorists from advancing towards the railway in al-Bahariye town and towards al-Qasimiye town in al-Nashabiye area, leaving many of the terrorists dead or injured and destroying their weapons and ammo.
In al-Qalamoun area, an army unit clashed with a terrorist group near Martabaya crossing point in the wilderness of Qara, 11 kilometers from the Lebanese border across from the town of Irsal, leaving the group’s members dead or injured.
Quneitra
Army unit killed 47 members of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in Mas’hara town in the countryside of the southern province of Quneitra, a military source said.
SANA reporter quoted the source as saying that the terrorists known as Abo Youssef, Abo Abdo, Abo Ajaj and Abo Mus’ab al-Ghanouji were identified among the killed.