SDF: We installed other 17 points, killed 71 mercenaries

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The Media Center of SDF issued a statement to the public opinion, disclosing the outcome of the clashes that broke out during the last 24 hours in the last strongholds of IS mercenaries in Deir ez-Zor countryside.

The text of the statement included,

"Our fighters launched on Friday morning an attack on the sites and points of the terrorists in Hajin city and its surroundings, and that resulted in breaking out fierce clashes lasted for several hours in which a number of terrorists were killed and injured while the rest of them fled. Soon, our forces combed the area where the clashes took place as they found a quantity of ammunition and military equipment.

On the other side of this axis, our fighters achieved a noticeable advance after they were engaged into clashes with the terrorists and killed a number of them as the bodies of some of them were kept at the fighters' hands so the terrorist organization resorted to bombarding our fighters' points with mortars and cannons, but they did not cause any damage. During the progression, our fighters found a large quantity of weapons and ammunition.

On another front of this axis and in the evening hours, our fighters launched an attack on the terrorists' sites and that resulted in killing a number of them. Our fighters progressed a distance of 1 km and installed other 14 points. The terrorist organization attempted to launch a counter-attack on our forces in the points they have lost, but our fighters repelled them. Moreover, dozens of terrorists were killed and others got wounded in the clashes.

Fierce clashes broke out in another side of this axis, in which a big number of terrorists were killed and wounded, and our fighters achieved an advance, managed to set up other 21 points and seized a number of weapons and an amount of ammunition. In the morning hours, the terrorists attempted to launch a counter-attack, while our fighters repelled them and inflicted them with vast damage in souls and equipment so the mercenaries were obliged to retreat. 

In another front, our forces launched an attack on the sites and points of the terrorists so strong clashes erupted in which a number of terrorists were killed, our fighters progressed a space of 1 km and they set up 17 points. In addition, the military engineering teams of our forces began to dismantle the mines planted by the terrorist organization in the area amid intensive raids of the International Coalition's warplanes on the points and sites of the terrorists.

In the morning hours, IS terrorists launched an attack on the points and sites of our forces, but our fighters repelled them and left killed and wounded in their ranks. During the attack, the terrorists used a drone, but it was downed.

In another side, our fighters launched an attack on the terrorists' sites and set up  a number of points.

Furthermore, the terrorist organization launched a vast attack with several cars using heavy weapons on our forces' sites in another front of this axis so fierce clashes erupted in which a big number of terrorists were killed and wounded as the bodies of some of them were kept at our fighters' hands, a number of their machineries were destroyed and they were inflicted vast losses in the souls and equipment. The International Coalition's warplanes launched several aerial raids that resulted in destroying the terrorists' sites and fortifications.

Furthermore, the intermittent clashes were still ongoing in most of the fronts of this axis till the moment of preparing this outcome, and a number of our fighters were wounded in those clashes and battles so they were taken to the hospitals to receive the medical treatment.

The outcome of the clashes:

The number of the terrorists' killed: 71 terrorists.

The weapons and equipment seized by our fighters: 1 RBG weapon, 3 mortar cannon bases, a big number of mortar shells, a number of Kalashnikovs and a laptop.

The terrorists' losses: 74 terrorists' sites were destroyed, 10 military roads that used to be used by the mercenaries were closed, a site where the terrorists' ships and boats used to anchor was destroyed, 8 vehicles were destroyed, 2 Dushka's sites were destroyed, 3 sites of heavy equipment destroyed and 6 trenches were destroyed.

The number of the International Coalition's strikes: 104 aerial raids.

D.H

ANHA