IranPress/Middle East: Syrian army units strengthened their positions in the vicinity of al-Safa hills, responding with the appropriate weapons to any hostile attempt by terrorists to break the siege imposed on them.
Al-Safa hills is the last stronghold for the takfiri terrorist organization in Sweida province’s eastern badiya (desert).
Also Syrian army’s air force and artillery launched accurate strikes against Daesh dens and fortified positions in al-Safa hill, which has a rough terrain replete with rocks, ditches, and gorges, inflicting heavy losses on them in personnel and equipment.
Later, a Syrian army unit targeted a terrorist group that was moving in the surroundings of Qabr al-Sheikh Yassin area southwest of the hills, destroying two vehicles, one equipped with a heavy machinegun and the other equipped with an anti-air machinegun.
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Syrian army also targeted another group near Ghanem hill east of the hills, which resulted in destroying a vehicle equipped with a heavy machinegun, while another army units apprehended five terrorists.
Meanwhile, Syrian army units on Tuesday in cooperation with supporting forces, were closing in on terrorists in al-Safa hills area after establishing control over Oum Mardakh area northwest of the hills, targeting the terrorists’ fortified positions and movements and preventing any attempt to break through the perimeter established around them.
Last month, SANA reporter in Sweida said that a terrorist suicide bomber blew himself up in the area of al-Souq in Sweida city, and as a result more than 150 citizens were martyred and 178 citizens were injured.
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