Syrian government soldiers have reportedly thwarted an attempt by Takfiri Daesh militants to establish a foothold in the Arab country’s beleaguered eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, killing a large number of the terrorists in the process.
Army troops managed to push the extremists back as the latter mounted an offensive against Panorama neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the city, located 450 kilometers northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Sunday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
Syrian fighter jets also carried out a string of aerial attacks against terrorist positions in the districts of Maqabir, al-Hamidia and al-Sina’a in Dayr al-Zawr.
The development came a day after Syrian forces intercepted and shot down a Daesh drone as it was flying in the skies over Dayr al-Zawr airport.
Elsewhere in the western province of Homs, Syrian army units could establish control over much of al-Bayarat area in the western suburbs of the ancient Semitic city of Palmyra on Sunday.
Syrian army soldiers, supported by fighters from allied popular defense groups, conducted a major operation in Turfah al-Gharbia village, purging a vast expanse of land from foreign-sponsored militants.
Moreover, Syrian army troops targeted a number of pickup trucks equipped with heavy machine guns in Kafr Zeitta town of the country's west-central province of Hama, destroying the vehicles and eliminating dozens of terrorists.
Scores of Daesh terrorists were killed in Wadi al-Azib district of the same province, when fighters from popular defense groups staged a surprise attacks against the terrorists.
Separately, five terrorists were killed and their munitions destroyed when Syrian army soldiers struck militant outposts in al-Dahr al-Aswad Hill on the western outskirts of Damascus.