Syrian Army Restores Northern Aleppo Town, Kills & Wounds Dozens of ISIL Gunmen

The Syrian army managed on Saturday to restore security to the Hweija town in northern Aleppo countryside, after launching a military operation against the dens of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group, leaving scores of its terrorists killed or wounded.

The national military also killed a large numbers of ISIL and Al-Nusra Front terrorists, gaining more progress in different Syrian territories.

In Lattakia, 300 terrorists at least killed in operations carried out by the army and the armed forces against dens of the terrorist organizations in Salma and the mountains surrounding it in the northern countryside of the coastal Lattakia province.

In Hama, a number of the Takfiri terrorist organizations’ members killed and others injured in airstrikes against their dens in Oqairibat, al-Ankawi and al-Ziara in the northern countryside of the central Hama province.

In Deir Ezzor, units of the army positioned at Deir Ezzor Airport killed 18 ISIL terrorists over the past 24 hours.

Field sources told state-run SANA news agency that among the killed terrorists, a self-claimed leader from the ISIL Abu Yusuf al-Iraqi along with 15 terrorists from his group, in addition to terrorist Ahmed Abboush and terrorist Siraj Eddin Jasem al-Eiada.

The sources added that a vehicle and varied ammunition belonging to ISIL terrorists were destroyed in the clashes in the surroundings of the airport.

In Homs meanwhile, a unit of the army and the armed forces destroys a store of ammunition belonging to the terrorist organizations in Um Sharshouh village in the northern countryside of the central Homs province.