Syria announces 4 SAA martyrs after attack on a Daraa checkpoint
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Four Syrian Arab Army soldiers were killed after they were attacked by armed militants in the Daraa governorate countryside.
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Syrian Arab Army reinforcements arrive near the city of Ras al-Ayn, in the north of Syria, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP)
In Syria, four soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army were reported to have been killed on Wednesday following an attack by armed militants on a military checkpoint in the village of Umm al-Miyazen, in the eastern countryside of the Daraa governorate according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.
The terrorists targeted a military checkpoint affiliated with the 15th Division of the Syrian Arab Army, which is positioned approximately 3km north of the Syrian-Jordanian border, in the southeastern countryside of the governorate.
Terrorist attacks on Syrian Arab Army positions by extremist groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra (HTS) and the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria continue to occur in the de-escalation zone in Idlib.
On January 23rd, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced the dismantling of several explosive devices in the countryside of Daraa, confirming that border guards shot down a drone near the Jordanian border.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA, engineering units of the armed forces in the Daraa countryside successfully dismantled several camouflaged explosive devices shaped like rocks, planted by terrorists. These devices were intended to target pedestrians on the roadside in the towns of Basra al-Harir and al-Mazirib.
Significantly, the terrorist attacks coincide with the Israeli aggression on the Syrian city of Homs earlier today, soon after midnight last night, resulting in the martyrdom of several and the injury of others.
Several killed, injured in Israeli aggression on Homs: Syrian MoD
Several civilians were killed and some injured in an Israeli missile attack on Homs province, the Syrian Defense Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Syrian state broadcaster Al Akhbar reported that Syria's air defense assets were repelling an Israeli missile attack on Homs.
"Today at approximately 00:30 [21:30 GMT on Tuesday], the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from a direction north of Tripoli [in Lebanon], striking a number of positions in the city of Homs and [Homs] province," the Ministry said in a statement.
حوالى الساعة 00:30 من فجر اليوم، شن العدو الإسرائيلي عدواناً جوياً من اتجاه طرابلس مستهدفاً نقاطاً في مدينة #حمص#الميادين #سوريا pic.twitter.com/b5PLE4DudA
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) February 7, 2024
The Director of the Ministry of Health in Homs, Muslim al-Atassi, said that several people were killed and others were injured when a building on al-Hamra Street in Homs collapsed as a result of the latest Israeli aggression.
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![In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had "engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)](https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2024/12/21/b4a69f2e-8682-43e4-9d37-49482b304ab3/3.png?v=2&format=webp "In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had \"engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)")
