Syrian army forces kill 13 senior militants near capital

A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said army forces also destroyed a vehicle rigged with explosives

 

Syrian army forces have killed more than a dozen senior foreign-sponsored militants during a full-scale operation in an area on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.

Abu Mohammed al-Fateh, leader of the terrorist Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union, said 13 top members of the Takfiri alliance, including a militant commander known by the nom de guerre Abu Amer al-Kafersousani, was killed as Syrian troopers staged an ambush on the militants in Dariya – a war-torn western suburb of Damascus, according to reports.

Meanwhile, Syrian soldiers killed an unspecified number of militants from Jaish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest) as the terrorist group sought to mount an offensive against Abu al-Duhur military airbase in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.

A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said army forces also destroyed a vehicle rigged with explosives before it could reach the entrance gate of the airbase, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.