Terrorists kill seven in Syria’s Aleppo
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A terrorist fires artillery during clashes near the village of Om al-Krameel, in Aleppo's southern countryside, Syria, May 5, 2016.
Mortar attacks by terrorists in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo have cost the lives of seven civilians and injured more than 15 others.
The attacks targeted the northwestern city’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood on Saturday, Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel reported.
In another development, Syria Now website reported that army forces had stricken a southern Aleppo countryside, killing Abdul-Rahman Abu-Sayyaf, the al-Nusra Front terror group’s military commander. Al-Nusra is the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.
Elsewhere in the northwest, a booby trap went off in the city of Idlib, inflicting injury on a number of civilians.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), meanwhile, said army units had destroyed vehicles and positions belonging to the Takfiri terrorist group of ISIL in the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr.
Early in June, the Syrian army entered Raqqah Province for the first time since 2014, when ISIL unleashed its campaign of terror inside Syria. The army has been advancing toward the provincial capital city, also named Raqqah, which is considered the terrorist group’s headquarters.
The potential recapture of Raqqah in Syria and the Iraqi city of Mosul — ISIL’s headquarters in northern Iraq, which likewise awaits liberation operations — would mark the ultimate blow to ISIL.
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