Clashes’ outcome in battle to defeat terrorism during last 24 hours

The media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) revealed the outcome of the clashes and battles within the battle to defeat terrorism during the last 24 hours, confirming that 51 mercenaries were killed and a car bomb was destroyed.

Clashes’ outcome in battle to defeat terrorism during last 24 hours
24 Decemberember 2018   15:31

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The media center of SDF issued a statement in this regard, in which it stated,

“1- Baguz axis: In the early hours of the morning, there were movements of the terrorists so our fighters targeted them and violent clashes broke out in six locations in which the terrorists used heavy and light weapons. One of their vehicles tried to escape, but it was targeted by our fighters, and that resulted in killing whoever were inside it and a terrorist carrying a PKC weapon was killed. Our fighters also targeted a terrorist gang with mortars. The killing of three terrorists was confirmed.

The Global Coalition’s Obis cannonry bombarded several terrorists’ sites, but we could not know the results. The Coalition’s aircraft launched several intensive raids targeting the terrorists’ sites and fortifications.

In the evening, the terrorists attempted to launch a counter-attack against the points of our fighters from two axes, and clashes which were the most violent broke out in the center of al-Soseh town which the elements of the terrorist organization tried to break into and break the defensive lines of our forces, but our fighters repelled and killed a large number of terrorists while the rest fled.

The terrorist organization attempted to gather up its ranks and launch another counter-attack against our fighters' points, but that was foiled as well after strong clashes erupted against the attacking terrorists amid aerial raids launched by the International Alliance’s aircraft on the terrorists’ positions. As a result of those clashes, a large number of terrorist elements were killed as the bodies of 10 mercenaries were kept at the hands of our fighters.

The terrorists tried to penetrate the ranks of our forces by using a number of car bombs and the military armored vehicles, but our fighters confronted and managed to detonate one of them while the others fled the battlefield. Our fighters targeted two terrorists wearing explosive belts, killed them before reaching our fighters’ points and seized their belts and weapons.

2- Hejin axis: This axis is still witnessing intermittent clashes interspersed with mutual shelling with mortars in addition to attempts by the terrorist organization to launch attacks on our fighters’ points, but all of them are foiled due to the vigilance of our fighters and monitoring all the movements of terrorists.

3. The final outcome of the clashes:

- The number of terrorists’ killed: 51 terrorists, the bodies of 10 of them were kept into our fighters’ hands.

- The terrorists’ losses: A car bomb and a military vehicle were destroyed.

- The weapons seized by our fighters: 1 PKC, 2 explosive belts and a number of Kalashnikov rifles.

- The raids of the Global Coalition’s aircrafts: 18 raids.

- The number of rockets launched at the terrorist positions: 7 Hummer missiles.

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