Syrian Army Foils Terrorists’ Massive Attacks on Hama, Idlib

The terrorist groups were preparing to launch massive attacks from several directions on the Syrian Army, but the Syrian Army inflicted heavy losses and casualties on the militants after foiling their attempted attack and forcing the remaining terrorists to retreat to the depth of the regions under their control in Southern and Southeastern Idlib.

In Northern Hama, the Syrian Army units also targeted the terrorists’ movements near the town of Mourek, killing a number of militants and making the rest retreat.

The Syrian Army troops also targeted and destroyed the positions and hideouts of terrorists in al-Karjat and Qaleh al-Maziq areas of Sahl al-Ghab, killing all the militants inside their hideout.

The Arabic-language service of the Russian Sputnik news agency, meantime, pointed to the attacks by Tahrir al-Sham and their allies on Northern Hama and Southern Idlib from the Ankara-backed monitoring points, and said that Ankara supports these terrorist groups in terms of supplying weapons and military equipment.

In a relevant development on Monday, the Syrian Army made final preparations for cleansing Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay’at terrorists in the demilitarized zone after massive assault by the militants on government forces’ military positions there.

The Syrian Army troops are in a state of alert in all contact lines with terrorists in Northern and Northwestern Hama in a bid to launch military operations soon, the Arabic-language service of the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying.

It reiterated that the Syrian Army cannot always be on a defensive mode against the terrorists’ attacks from the demilitarized zone, and said, “After the recent attack by the terrorists on the Syrian Army’s military positions in Hama, there are contacts between the Syrian sides to come to a solution for responding to the recent terrorist attacks from the demilitarized zone.”

The source added that the primary goal for carrying out military operations against terrorists is to put an end to the presence of the terrorists in demilitarized zone and restoring security to the surrounding areas of towns near the battlefronts of Hama which are exposed to the terrorists’ constant missile attacks.

Meantime, the Syrian Army troops engaged in heavy clashes with Tahrir al-Sham and Turkistani Party terrorists as well as other foreign militants who had carried out massive attack on the Syrian Army’s military positions in Tal al-Qaleh axis of Abu Ali mountain in Northeastern Lattakia. The terrorists sustained losses and casualties in clashes with the Syrian Army soldiers after their attack was fended off.

In a relevant development on Saturday, the Syrian army attacked terrorists’ bases and positions in response to their offensives from the demilitarized zone on safe regions under the army’s control in Northern Hama.

The terrorist groups stationed in the demilitarized zone in Northern Hama targeted the Mahrada city with 40 missiles, leaving heavy damage on the city’s power plant and residential areas as well as wounding a number of civilians.

The Syrian army units responded the offensive with heavy missile and artillery attacks, targeting the terrorists’ positions and moves South of Mourek town in Northern Hama and a military convoy carrying weapons and military equipment. Several hideouts of the terrorists were destroyed and a number of them were killed in the Syrian Army attacks.

Meantime, the Arabic-language service of the Russian Sputnik news agency reported that Jeish al-Izza terrorists also launched a missile attacked Mahrada City in Northern Hama.

A military source, meantime, pointed to the intensified attacks by terrorists from the demilitarized zone in recent days, and said that Haras ul-Din terrorists, stationed near the Turkish-controlled region in the surrounding areas of Mourek town, attacked residential areas in Souran City with several missiles. This comes as the terrorists’ missile attacks have been extended to the towns of al-Mahrouseh, Na’or Shatheh and Tal Bazam in Northern Hama.

Meantime, relevant reports said last Tuesday that Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the al-Nusra Front) had recently delivered 3,000 long-range and mid-range missiles jointly produced by a number of Arab states in one of the North African countries to the underground caches of Jeish al-Izza terrorist group in the towns of Kafr Zita and al-Latamineh in Northern Hama.

The Arabic-language service of Sputnik quoted special sources in Idlib as saying that the operations to deliver the missiles was carried out at night and took for two days, adding that commander of Tahrir al-Sham for weaponry named Abu Ahmad al-Checheni has ordered transfer of the missiles from the depots in Idlib city, Saraqib and Ariha in Idlib province to Jeish al-Izza after coordination with its commander Jamil al-Salih.

During the missile attacks by Jeish al-Izza against the residential areas in the town of al-Saqilbeh and Mahrada in Northern and Northwestern Hama, a civilian was killed and 7 others, including a child, were severely wounded and a large number of houses were destroyed.

Based on the report, the terrorists stationed in Southeastern Idlib also launched missile strikes against the Western parts of the town of Abu al-Zohour, killing 7 Syrian military forces and injuring 20 others near the town of al-Sukriyeh.

Meantime, the Syrian army forces in response targeted the terrorists’ moves in Western Abu al-Zohour, inflicting over 25 tolls on them and smashing their military equipment.

Also, the Syrian air force launched repeated airstrikes against the terrorists’ positions near the town of Saraqib in Southern Idlib, destroying one of the biggest arms depots of Tahrir al-Sham in the region.