Syrian Arab Army targets armed militias in Idlib
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Syrian Arab Army units target the headquarters of armed groups across Idlib, confirming deaths and injuries among the terrorists' ranks.
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Syrian government forces reinforcements arrive near the city of Ras al-Ayn, in the north of Syria, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo)
The Syrian Arab Army units targeted the headquarters of armed militias across Idlib's countryside in northern Syria.
As a result of the heavy artillery targeting the militias, a number were killed and others were wounded. Simultaneously, the Syrian army announced they had shot down two drones belonging to armed groups in northern Aleppo.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday in a statement published via its website that "units of the Syrian army targeted terrorist headquarters in the Idlib countryside, and shot down two drones in the northern countryside of Aleppo."
The ministry's statement added that, as part of the response to the repeated attacks by the armed groups targeting safe villages and towns alongside Syrian Arab Army military posts across Hama and Idlib, "units of the Syrian army carried out concentrated attacks on terrorist headquarters, their fortifications, and their artillery positions."
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In that context, the ministry confirmed that the targeting led to “the destruction of headquarters and fortifications, in addition to the destruction of a number of mortars,” as well as the killing and wounding of a number of the organizations’ militants, specifically affiliated with the terrorist organization Ansar al-Tawhid, including Misbah Othman and Mufid Bayoush.
Moreover, the ministry reported in its statement that army units shot down two terrorist drones in northern Aleppo that "were trying to target Syrian army positions in the aforementioned area."
Syrian army carried out qualitative operations against terrorists: MoD
The Syrian Ministry of Defense confirmed in early September that in cooperation with the Russian Air Forces, units of the Syrian Arab Army forces operation in Idlib and Hama countryside carried out qualitative operations against terrorist organizations over several days.
In a statement, the Ministry said the operations come in response to "the flagrant violation committed by the terrorist organizations on the Malaga axis in the southern countryside of Idlib."
The statement also pointed out that the qualitative operations come in light of the repeated attacks carried out by armed terrorist organizations supported by some regional and international parties on safe villages, towns, and sites, as well as points of the Syrian army adjacent to the de-escalation zones in the Idlib and Hama countrysides.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that the operations led to the destruction of a large number of terrorist headquarters, operations rooms, and warehouses, including weapons, equipment, drones, and communications devices.
It highlighted that 111 terrorists were killed in the operation, most of them belonging to the so-called Ansar al-Tawhid organization, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, and more than 80 other terrorists were injured.
