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Syria: Tajik Commander among 75 ISIS Members Killed in Deir Ezzur
The Syrian army's ambush operation against an ISIS gathering center in the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur killed tens of terrorists, including their Tajik commander.
The Syrian army's ambush operation against an ISIS gathering center in the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur killed tens of terrorists, including their Tajik commander.
75 ISIS members were killed and many more were wounded after a column of the terrorists found themselves in an ambush operation of the government forces in Deir Ezzur province.
A field source said that a Syrian army unit, in cooperation with the engineering units, ambushed against the ISIL in a street in al-Sina'ah neighborhood in Deir Ezzur city and surprised them with landmines and bombs traps in the street.
At least 75 Takfiri terrorists were killed and tens of others wounded, including foreign militants, in the bomb blasts, according to the source.
The source added that a senior ISIS commander who had jointed the terrorist group from Tajikistan was also among the dead.
The ambush also destroyed the terrorists' arms, equipment and a cannon.
After the ambush, the Syrian forces and their allies could retook al-Sina'ah from the ISIS which had captured the city on Wednesday.
In a relevant development on Wednesday, the Syrian Army and Air Force struck ISIS positions in three different battlefields across the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur and inflicted major losses on the militants.
The Syrian government forces hit the ISIS gatherings in al-Sina'ah district, which ended in the killing of over 10 militants and explosion of a mid-size depot of ammunition and weapons.
In the meantime, the ISIS sites in Haweija Saker and al-Baqaliyeh came under the heavy strikes of the Syrian fighter jets, which not only claimed the lives of several terrorists but destroyed their sites' infrastructures.
