Syrian Forces Aiming to Liberate Elnaymah
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Syrian Army has plans to recapture the southwestern village of Elnaymah from terrorist groups as the next strategic target after its recent successful operation to liberate Atman, near the city of Daraa.
Military sources told Tasnim that the Elnaymah village is probably the next strategic target that the Syrian troops will try to liberate after taking full control of Atman on Friday.
Recapturing Elnaymah will pave the way for the Syrian Army to broaden control over the northern and northeastern parts of the province of Daraa, and will help block routes through which terrorists receive supports from neighboring Jordan, the sources added.
Elsewhere in the northern parts of Syrian, the military forces have pushed ahead with a major offensive to recapture more towns north of Aleppo province, close to the Turkish border.
The advances come days after the Syrian forces broke a long-running siege by Takfiri militants on the villages of al-Zahraa and Nubl, northwest of Aleppo.
Al-Zahraa and Nubl had been under siege since July 2012. But their residents vigorously resisted to the invaders.
Syria has been entangled in civil war since March 2011, with Takfiri terrorist groups like Daesh (ISIL) controlling parts of it, mostly in the east.
In the past five years, more than 250,000 people have died in Syria -overwhelmingly civilians- and around 4 million Syrians are now refugees in other countries. Around 8 million others have been displaced internally.