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Army penetrates Syrian town of Al-Karjatain
The Assad Regime, reports that another military success against the terror militia IS. A few days after the re-conquest of Palmyra, the army intervened, according to state media in the city of Al-Karjatain.
A Syrian soldier is built on a mountain in Al-Karjatain military equipment
With the support of the Russian air force, the Syrian armed forces in the fight against the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS). The state television reported the government is so far from the IS-held town of Al would have conquered troops-Karjatain and completely under your control. The army and its allies had made in Al-Karjatain “security and stability” and the last remaining IS fighters killed. The government troops have surrounded in the last days of the city. The news Agency Sana reported, citing military circles that the soldiers were now in the process of the IS-fighters disarm-laid mines.
The opposition close Syrian Observatory for human rights, the full capture of the city is not confirmed yet. After your presentation, you will be fighting in the East and the South-East of Al-Karjatain. However, the extremists had begun in the Eastern parts of the mountainous Region of Qalamoun to withdraw. “The city is like a military as good as,” said the Director of the London-based Observer, Rami Abdurrahman, the Reuters news Agency. The Assad troops also controlled the hills around Al-Karjatain. Russian and Syrian aircraft would have flown on Sunday, more than 40 attacks in the environment of the city.
A cloud of smoke rises over the besieged city of Al-Karjatain
The IS-militia had taken Al-Karjatain in August 2015 and at least 230 residents, among them dozens of Christians abducted. IS fighters destroyed, there is also the monastery of Mar Elian from the 5. Century. The city lies approximately 100 kilometres to the West of the ancient desert city of Palmyra, the Assad’s soldiers, Robert had a week ago IS back.
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Assad army liberated Palmyra IS (27.03.2016)
Thousands of hidden mines
The IS-militia had taken the Palmyra in may 2015, and ancient sculptures and world-famous buildings such as the Baal-temple blown up. Thousands of mines and explosives have the extremists in the main and side streets of the city. The armed forces are now to defuse it. Since the reconquest of Palmyra. more than 3000 explosives had been rendered harmless, said an officer on site, the Reuters news Agency. The explosives were to each other have been connected. “The idea was that you start as soon as we move in – all at once, not one bomb. And since many mines are located.”
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