Repelling IS' attacks, inflicting it with losses in Hajin

The Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pointed out that their forces repelled IS mercenaries' attacks on their positions and that they have inflicted them with vast losses in equipment and souls, noting that SDF fighters managed to eradicate 32 mercenaries and destroy several sites of them.

20 December, 2018 15:20

NEWS DESK

During the statement of the military operations' outcome of the battle to defeat terrorism within the last 24 hours that was issued by the Media Center of SDF, the Center stated that intermittent clashes are breaking out in Hajin axis amid a continuous progress of SDF.

The statement confirmed that the mercenaries are being inflicted vast losses during the fighters' confrontation to their attacks.

The statement included,

"Strong clashes erupted between our fighters and IS terrorists in Hajin axis in the result of an attack launched on our forces' sites. The terrorists used all kinds of heavy, medium and light weapons in the attack, while our fighters inflicted them with heavy losses as a number of killed and wounded left in IS' ranks and the rest of them fled.

In the morning, the terrorist organization attempted to launch an attack on our forces' points in the city via motorcycles, but our fighters repelled them and left a number of killed and wounded whose number has not been known. Moreover, the Global Coalition's aircrafts launched several raids on the terrorists' sites and fortifications.

The intermittent clashes were still ongoing in this axis till the moment of preparing this outcome.

The outcome of the clashes:

The number of the terrorists' killed: 32 terrorists.

The terrorists' losses: A depository of tanks, 13 terrorists' sites, 7 command's positions, a site for launching mortars and 2 trenches were destroyed.

The number of the Global Coalition's strikes: 41 strikes.

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