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Martyr Major General Issam Zahreddein escorted to final resting place in Sweida,amidst popular and official participation… Martyr Issam Zahreddein was killed while performing his national duty to defend the homeland in Hawija Sakr Island to the East of Deir ezzor city on Wednesday… Brigadier of the 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guards Issam Zahreddein was born 1961 in the Town of Al-kubra in the Northern countryside of Suweida… His grandfather was Abdel karim Zahreddein, the former Syrian Minister of Defense, and most of his family IS in the Syrian Arab Army’s ranks… Representing President Bashar Al-Assad Minister of Presidential Affairs Mansour Azzam attended the funeral ceremony…

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The Syrian army continued its military operations in Homs province by purging terrorists from a key region.

The army units hit hard the ISIL’s defense lines in Southwestern Homs.

The Syrian troops killed several terrorists and injured many more in fierce clashes over controlling of a strategic region. They also destroyed military equipment of the terrorists.

The Syrian army also continued its advances in other key provinces across Syria.

Homs

The Syrian Army troops hit ISIL’s defense lines hard in Southwestern and captured a region and its surrounding mountains.

The army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL North of the town of al-Quaryatayn Southwest of Homs province, taking full control over al-Marmalah region and its surrounding mountains, military sources reported on Friday.

Relevant reports said earlier that the Syrian Army troops kicked off a fresh round of anti-ISIL operation codenamed Valfajr 3 in Syria’s Badiyeh (desert) and managed to advance toward the second station in Southeastern Homs.

The army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL East of Humeimeh region and advanced against terrorists in a large region in 8km depth and 5km in width South of a road connecting Humeimeh to the second station.

The army men entered border region with Deir Ezzur 9km away from the second station following the advances.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian Army forces continued their anti-ISIL operations in Eastern Deir Ezzur and managed to open their way into the al-Amr oilfield complex, the largest energy field in the country.

Military sources confirmed on Friday that the army units reached the regions near al-Amr oilfield just moments ago after they crossed the Euphrates River and moved to the Eastern bank of the river opposite the newly-freed town of al-Mayadeen after capturing the town of Zeiban earlier on Friday.

They added that Syrian army forces have achieved fire control over the huge energy site, forcing the ISIL militants to fully withdraw from the region.

The al-Amr oilfield contributed to about one quarter of Syria’s oil production before the war and it was captured by ISIL militants in mid-2014.

Reports said earlier on Friday that the army men captured Zeiban and several villages near al-Mayadeen in Southeastern Deir Ezzur, and came close to al-Amr oilfield.

The soldiers built floating bridge over the Euphrates River and crossed it.

The army soldiers later advanced against ISIL on the Eastern bank of the river, trying hard to take control over al-Amr oilfield and later move eastward to the borders with Iraq.

Most of the ISIL-affiliated news sources have not reacted to the developments, but Anab website reported that ISIL has started vast retreat in the region stretching from Deir Ezzur base to the town of al-Mayadeen.

In the meantime, the army soldiers resumed their anti-ISIL operation towards the town of Albu Kamal at the border with Iraq.

Al-Amr oilfield is located a few kilometers away from the town of Zeiban.

Dara’a

A militant-commandeered vehicle was badly destroyed by a roadside bomb in Syria’s Southern province of Dara’a, leaving two terrorists dead.

A vehicle of Liwa Ahfad al-Rasoul affiliated to the Free Syrian Army fighters was destroyed by a roadside bomb while traveling from Dara’a city to the town of Um Elmiathin inside rebel-held territories, the English-language Lebanon-based AMN reported.

The blast caused heavy damage to the vehicle, killing two of the rebel fighters and wounding the third passenger.

The two fighters who died have been identified by opposition sources as Mustafa Hamad and Basel Mahamid.

Quneitra

The Syrian Army’s artillery units pounded terrorists’ positions in Northern Quneitra on Friday, killing the entire members of the group.

The artillery units shelled heavily the positions of a group of terrorists in Taranjeh-Harash region in Northern Quneitra, killing all the militants stationed there.

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