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Syrian soldiers, allied fighters recapture 18 villages in Aleppo

Syrian forces have regained control over more than a dozen villages in the country’s northern province of Aleppo.

On Monday, Syrian soldiers and allied fighters restored security and stability to 18 villages, including Jarkes, al-Ismailiyah, Abajah, Mazra’a Abajah and Abu Tinah, killing a large number of Daesh extremists, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.

They also destroyed an explosives-laden car and nine pickup trucks equipped with heavy machine guns.

The Syrian forces also captured the main pumping station that supplies water to the city of Aleppo, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The army and its allied forces advanced in the east of Aleppo.

Following the withdrawal of Daesh, the observatory said, the Syrian forces recaptured Khafsa area on the western bank of the Euphrates River, where the water treatment and pumping plants are located.

Elsewhere, in the central province of Homs, Syrian troopers and fighters from popular defense groups targeted Daesh positions in al-Katibah al-Mahjourah and al-Baredah districts, besides the eastern outskirts of al-Qaryatayn town and the ancient city of Palmyra.

Syrian army units also struck the gatherings and positions of the terrorist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, in the northern village of al-Lataminah, located 39 kilometers northwest of Hama, killing many terrorists and destroying three vehicles belonging to them.

Moreover, Syrian army soldiers and their allies engaged in fierce clashes with Daesh Takfiris in the Maqabir district of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, located 450 kilometers northeast of the capital, Damascus, killing several terrorists and destroying their fortifications.

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