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Syrian army, backed by the Syrian army air force, on Sunday have carried out wide-scale military operations against the Takfiri terrorist organizations across in different areas including Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Daraa. Units of the army and the armed forces, backed by the Syrian army air force, on Sunday carried out wide-scale military operations against the Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country, destroying their dens and positions and inflicting heavy losses upon them in the personnel and the equipment. Homs Syrian Army Air Force destroyed ISIS terrorists’ gatherings and vehicles north and east of Palmyra city and Jabal al-Khanzeir in Homs Countryside. According to a military source, the air strikes targeted ISIS gatherings and cars fitted with various machineguns in Khneifis and and Jabal-al Khanzeir . The army, in cooperation with popular defense groups established control over southern plains of Jabal a-Mkeita’a and the western plateaus of Jabal Antar after inflicting ...

Numerous orphans who lost their parents due to foreign anti-terror intervention in Syria are becoming thirsty for revenge, a new ISIS propaganda video claims, showing a squad of well-equipped child soldiers preparing for battle. The footage created by the terrorist group’s media arm, Alhayat Center, starts off with a child walking across the ruins of a city destroyed during the Syrian conflict. Amid the scenes of destruction, the faces of Western leaders and politicians blend in with carefully drafted propaganda messages, accompanied by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) nasheed tune sung in French. The terror group vowed payback for the “massacre” perpetrated by the West against the self-proclaimed caliphate in the name of “so-called precious freedoms,” the inserts read, reassuring followers that the extremist organization has enough means by which to defend their cause. US President Barack Obama, Russian and French leaders Vladimir Putin and François Hollande, alongside Syr...