Damascus - Noura Khowam
Military operations continue in the town of Sukhna in the eastern Homs countryside, after the Syrian government forces were able to take control of most of the city. The clashes are continuing in several axes in its northern, eastern and southern suburbs, with the militants of ISIS extremist group. The clashes are accompanied by continued air and missile bombardment on the battle hubs, amid new progress of government forces in the axis of "Manoucheh”.
The military operations are still taking place in the desert of Al- Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs after the regime forces managed to take full control over the city, where the clashes are still taking place in several areas in the outskirts of the northern, eastern and southern cities, between the “Islamic State” organization on one hand, and the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities on the other.
Al-Rahman legion, which is deployed in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, announced killing 15 members of Assad army forces in Ayn Tarma Town, Enab Baladi reported on Saturday. The legion announced in a statement, today, via its social media channels that its troops killed 15 members of the Syrian army in Ayn Tarma Town, while revealed that all the killed members are from the 4th brigade.
Furthermore, the statement informed that the legion members destroyed two military vehicles belonging to Assad forces, while they were advancing into Ayn Tarma front. Meanwhile, media office of Ayn Tarma stated on its Facebook page that Assad forces shelled the town, using ground-to-ground missiles, after failing to advance toward the rebels areas. It is noteworthy that Assad forces and allied militias are trying to advance into Ayn Tarma and Hay Jober, in an attempt to separate the two neighborhoods from the eastern Ghouta.
Shelling by the “Islamic State” organization yesterday evening, places in Haifa Street in Yarmouk camp in the south of the capital, amid targeting by heavy machine guns to places in the area, and no information about casualties was reported yet.
Places in in Ofanya town in the countryside of Al-Quneitra were shelled and targeted by heavy machine guns of the regime forces yesterday evening, thus, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented a new violation to Syrian south truce which is still in effect since the 9th of August 2017, with a Russian-American-Jordanian agreement.
In the same context, Shelling by the “Islamic State” organization yesterday evening, places in Haifa Street in Yarmouk camp in the south of the capital, amid targeting by heavy machine guns to places in the area, and no information about casualties was reported yet. Places in in Ofanya town in the countryside of Al-Quneitra were shelled and targeted by heavy machine guns of the regime forces yesterday evening.
Thus, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented a new violation to Syrian south truce which is still in effect since the 9th of August 2017, with a Russian-American-Jordanian agreement, SOHR documented yesterday a shelling by the regime forces targeted Al-Hamidiyah town in the middle countryside of Al-Quneitra.
SOHR published hours ago that the regime forces opened their machine guns on areas in Al-Tiha in the northern countryside of Daraa, causing material damage, a shell also fell on an area in the outskirts of the Western Al-Gharya town in the eastern countryside of Daraa, resulting in damage to the property of citizens, documenting new violations to Russian-American-Jordanian truce in the provinces of Daraa, Al-Quneitra and Al-Suwaidaa, in the Southern Syria, shells also fell on in Hodr town in the northern countryside of Al-Quneitra, on Saturday night, resulting in material damage.
In Raqqah , A person was killed by a mine explosion of the remnants of the “Islamic State” organization in the town of Hunaida in the western countryside of Al-Raqqah.
Activists in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed a new violation to truce of the northern countryside of Homs, which was put in effect with an Egyptian-Russian agreement. at noon of the 3rd of August 2017, where the regime forces targeted intensively by shells and heavy machine guns, places in the area of Al-Houla in the northern countryside of Homs, followed by targeting by the factions to the checkpoints of the regime forces in the vicinity of the area, and no information about casualties was reported yet.
Syria's al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front handed over five Hezbollah captives on Thursday as part of a cease-fire between the two sides. Hezbollah's War Media outlet said an official convoy is taking the freed captives from Syria's al-Saan to Lebanon's al-Qaa.
The five captives, identified as Ahmed Mezher, Moussa Kourani, Hassan Taha, Mohammed Mahdi Shoaib and Mohammad Jawad Ali Yassine, were handed over at the al-Saan crossing in Syria's central province of Hama. They were captured in central and northern Syria in 2015 and 2016. Meanwhile, thousands of Syrian refugees and militants evacuated from the outskirts of the northeastern Lebanese border town of Arsal arrived in the areas in central Syria held