The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced Sunday that the Syrian army targeted the headquarters and fortifications of armed groups in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, Palmyra, and Idlib.

In a statement published on its website, the Syrian Ministry of Defense stated that units of the Syrian army, in cooperation with Russian forces, carried out over several days a series of precise top-tier operations using warplanes, drones, artillery fire, and missiles targeting headquarters, sites, and fortifications belonging to terrorist organizations, as well as warehouses of weapons, ammunition, and various vehicles in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, Palmyra, and Idlib.

The statement further mentioned that the headquarters and sites were completely destroyed, resulting in the killing and injury of dozens of terrorist militants, including affiliated leaders and foreign terrorists.

On Saturday, the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces repelled an attack by ISIS-affiliated terrorist cells on military posts in al-Raqqa suburbs, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported.

Syria fends off simultaneous Israeli aggression, HTS terrorist attacks

On April 1st, Israeli occupation forces launched an aerial attack from the occupied Syrian Golan on several points in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Syrian military source told the state-owned Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 

The attack resulted in two injuries among civilians and few material losses, the source added. Syrian air defense systems intercepted several aerial targets in the attack on the Syrian capital. 

Concurrently, the terror organization, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a large-scale attack on the Syrian army's positions in Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib. The Syrian Armed Forces foiled the attack while artillery units targeted several HTS supply lines.

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