The army men engaged in a tough battle with the terrorists in Harasta region and won control over several buildings and farms near al-Qadourani Southeast of Police Hospital in the town of Harasta, inching closer to the Douma-Harasta highway.
Also, the army units advances towards Modira and Mesraba regions and managed to push the terrorists back from the farms between Beit Sawa and Mesraba.
In the meantime, the army men targeted and detonated a bomb-laden vehicle of the Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at or the Levant Liberation Board) before it could reach the army positions in al-Mohammadiyeh Farms, killing the attackers on board.
Earlier reports said that the army men engaged in fierce clashes with terrorists in a region between the town of Douma and another Eastern Ghouta key town, Harasta, and captured al-Qadravani Farms.
Local sources said that the army men deployed near Douma-Harasta highway after taking back al-Qadravani Farms.
They further said that the army units are only 1 km away from their comrades in the Vehicles Management Center, adding that if the army men reach their comrades’ positions they will have Harasta region under their siege.