Syria army continues mop-up operations in Damascus district
Iran Press TV
Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:33PM GMT
The Syrian army is carrying on with its mop-up operations against the Takfiri militants in the countryside of the capital Damascus.
Government troops succeeded in driving out the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists from the Adra al-Balad district after fierce clashes on Saturday.
The army inflicted heavy losses on the Takfiri terrorists in the area and currently controls most parts of it.
Government forces have also started searching the streets and defusing explosive devices planted earlier by the foreign-backed militants.
The town of Adra, located northeast of the capital, reportedly came under siege by the militants in December last year.
The army took control of the strategic town earlier this week and secured highways as well as an industrial zone on its outskirts.
In recent months, the Syrian army has been liberating a corridor of territory from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast, recapturing towns and villages along the main north-south highway and in the mountainous Qalamoun region along the border with Lebanon.
Syria has been gripped by deadly turmoil since 2011. The Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are reportedly supporting the militants operating inside Syria.
More than 191,000 people have so far been killed during more than three years of Takfiri violence in the war-ravaged country, according to reports.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has pledged to strike terror "with an iron fist."
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