Terrorists Continues Retreating from Eastern Ghouta

The army units kicked off a fresh wave of attacks on terrorists in early Tuesday and managed to advance against the militants in the depth of al-Reihan settlement, driving the terrorists out of a large part of the settlement.

A military analyst said that if the army men free al-Reihan, they will open their path to the Eastern direction of the key town Douma after years of terrorists’ occupation.

The army soldiers had scored limited advances near al-Reihan on Monday. Earlier reports said that the army troops stormed terrorists’ positions on Monday night and early Tuesday, tightening noose on the terrorists in the town of Harasta in Eastern Ghouta before the start of the daily truce.

The army men engaged in tough battle with Ahrar al-Sham East of the town of Harasta in Eastern Ghouta and imposed control over several farms and a key point South of al-Birouni Hospital.

Also, as field source said that the army men deployed only a thousand meters away from al-Birouni petrol station that brings them very close to laying a full siege on the remaining parts of Harasta that is still under terrorists’ control.

Head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) Rami Abdulrahman said that the army has deployed only 2 km away from Douma, the largest terrorist-held town in Eastern Ghouta and the main stronghold of Jeish al-Islam.

In the meantime, Central network of the Russia-run Humeimim airbase in Lattakia province announced that the army units are advancing into the depth of Eastern Ghouta from the West and their comrades are doing the same from the East.

As a result of the recent advances, the Syrian Army now finds themselves within 3.5 km of splitting the East Ghouta pocket in half.