Syrian Army Restores Northern Aleppo Town, Kills & Wounds Dozens of ISIL Gunmen as Russia Destroys Major Foreign-run Terrorist Training Base in Syria

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Syrian Arab Army

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.

Meanwhile Russian fighter jets operating in the Syrian skies have successfully targeted a major foreign-run military base in the northwest of the Arab country where elements of ISIL terrorist group were training militants for terror attacks.

Russian strikes

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the country’s warplanes have, in the last 24 hours, carried out 39 combat sorties, hitting 49 targets across Syria, including a training base, where it said foreign ISIL instructors trained the militants.

“Not far from Salma in Lattakia province, a Su-24M bomber delivered a strike at a building, which was used as a terrorist training ground,” ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said, citing intelligence sources that there were ISIL foreign instructors training militants for “guerrilla warfare in areas liberated by the Syrian army.”

The Russian general said an explosives workshop inside the camp was destroyed during the attack.

According to the official, the 49 targets also included command points, weapons workshops, firing positions, depots and fortified bunkers.

On September 30, Russia started its air campaign against ISIL and other terrorists in Syria based on a request by the Syrian government.

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.