Syrian Army Advancing towards Border with Jordan as Peace Talks with Militants Fail Again

Commanders of the terrorist groups left the new round of reconciliation talks with the Russian-Syrian delegation and kept gunmen on alert.

In the meantime, the army men, backed up by artillery units, stormed terrorists’ positions in the town of Tafas in Western Dara’a and captured several strategic regions.

Also, other artillery and missile units opened heavy fire at terrorists’ movements and positions near the Old Customs area and the town of al-Na’eimeh and its nearby regions, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.

The army is tightening siege on the terrorists from the direction of al-Tabelin road East of Tafas, and from Tal al-Saman in the North.

Local sources, meantime, reported that the army has cut off the main supply line of the terrorists connecting Western and Eastern Dara’a.

The Arabic-language website of Sputnik quoted Syrian military expert Colonel Ali Maqsoud as saying earlier today that the army plans to launch a major attack in Western and Southwestern Dara’a after government forces managed to liberate over 1,800 sq-km of land in Dara’a province in recent days.

The Eastern borders of Bravo Line that is a buffer region between the Syrian army and Israeli forces are in Western Dara’a.

The report went on to say that the army is planning to free Hawz Yarmouk, Hith, Tasil, Azwan, Nafe’eh, al-Shajara, al-Harra regions and the strategic town of Kafr Shams that links Southern Quneitra to Northwestern Dara’a in its upcoming operation.

Sputnik further said that 99 percent of the people in Dara’a, Sweida and Golan are calling for the expulsion of the terrorists from their regions, and quoted local sources as reporting that residents of the town of Nawa and Kafr Shams are expecting the army’s arrival and exit of militants any time soon.