Syrian Army Advancing in Hama’s Oil-Rich Region

The Syrian soldiers pushed the ISIL back from more positions along the road connecting the small town of al-Mab’oujeh to the oil pump station of Salba and restored security to the strategic road.

The ISIL left behind scores of the dead or wounded members and fled the battlefield.

Fierce clashes were also reported between the Syrian army men and the ISIL terrorists near the road connecting al-Mab’oujeh to Qleib al-Thwar.

In relevant developments in the province on Thursday, Syrian army units conducted special operations against the gatherings of ISIL Takfiri terrorists in the Eastern parts of Hama province, killing and wounding several militants.

According to a battlefield source, an army unit clashed with a group of ISIL Takfiri terrorists at the axis of al-Mab’oujeh-Akareb in the Eastern parts of Salamiyah city, killing and injuring scores of them and destroying their weapons.

Another army unit destroyed, in a special operation, a mortar launcher for the ISIL in Qleib village in the Eastern countryside of the province.

Syrian soldiers also destroyed machinegun equipped-vehicles for ISIL Takfiri terrorists and killed 7 of them in the vicinity of Aqayrabat town.