Syrian army, Hezbollah kill two Nusra Front commanders in Qalamoun
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Syrian army soldiers patrol in government-controlled Aleppo's al-Khalidiyah area on June 28, 2016. ©AFP
The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah resistance fighters, has thwarted an attack by terrorists in Syria’s Qalamoun region, killing two commanders of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorist group.
Informed sources said the terrorist commanders were killed on Thursday during fierce fighting which broke out in Qalamoun, located on Damascus countryside, Lebanon’s al-Manar TV channel reported.
In a post on its Twitter account, Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah identified one of those slain as Abu Obaida, adding that the militant was killed in Syria’s southwestern town of Serghaya.
In another development on Thursday, Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters managed to completely wrest control over the Mallah farms near the northwestern city of Aleppo.
They further recaptured the Castello road, which was used by terrorists as a strategic path to the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, SANA news agency reported that the Syrian army managed to foil an attack by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists on a number of military posts in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
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