Battle to Defeat Terrorism advanced, inflicted losses to IS

NEWS DESK

This came in a statement published by SDF's media center on its official website which said,

"Our forces continue their military operations on various fronts and axes, making further advancement, while IS organization is witnessing a clear recession in its ranks.

The following are the outcomes of the battles and clashes during the last 24 hours:

Hajin axis: Our forces clashed with the elements of IS in the evening in the result of an attack launched by the latter on one of the points of our fighters, and the clashes resulted in killing 3 terrorists.

One of our fighters was wounded in the clashes and taken to the hospital and 2 others were injured as a result of exploding a mine.

Our forces advanced 750 m on Wednesday morning and they were able to install 6 new points. Our forces immediately began combing a number of houses, during which a mine exploded at 3 of our fighters and they were wounded.

Al-Shadadi axis: Violent clashes broke out between our fighters and the terrorists which resulted in the capture of a quantity of military equipment by our fighters. The International Alliance’s aircraft also carried out air strikes against a number of the terrorist organization’s sites.

Our forces made a progress at 6 pm on this axis, and strong clashes broke out between them and elements of the terrorist organization, in which 13 new points were installed and one terrorist was killed.

The Coalition’s aircraft also carried out strikes against the terrorist organization's positions, killing 3 terrorists.

Al-Kesra axis: Our forces combed the north-east part of the village in full, during which periodic clashes broke out between our fighters and elements of the terrorist organization, and a landmine blasted at 3 of our fighters and resulted in injuring them. In addition to that, our fighters were able to fix one point.

Baguz axis: Violent clashes broke out on Wednesday morning between our forces and the terrorist organization. The mercenaries attempted to launch a counter-attack, using two booby-trapped vehicles, but our fighters repelled the attack and destroyed the vehicles before they reached their goal, while a number of terrorists were killed.

The outcome of clashes and battles on all axes:

-25 Terrorists were killed and one terrorist was injured.

Air strikes: 6 strikes. -

The number of mines that exploded: 2 mines. -

-The weapons seized by our fighters: 1 Dushka of 12.55 caliber, 1 Kalashnikov, 1 PKC, 12 boxes of bullets of Dushka caliber 12.5.

- The installed points: 20 points.

The number of martyrs among our fighters: 5 martyrs.-

The number of the injured fighters: 9 fighters .-

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ANHA