The army men engaged in fierce clashes with the non-Syrian terrorists of Horas al-Din and Tahrir al-Sham that had attacked Tal Bazam region North of the town of Souran in Northern Hama and repelled their offensive.
Also, the army’s artillery and missile units pounded terrorists’ movements in Souran and near the town of Morek in Northern Hama and in Khan Sheikhoun in Southern Idlib, inflicting major losses on the terrorists.
The terrorists used suicide attackers in their offensive against the army in Northern Hama, but the army killed a large number of terrorists and forced the remaining of them to retreat.
The terrorists’ attack on the army in Northern Hama was aimed at disturbing the army’s concentration on its operation in Southern Syria.
Last week, the army’s artillery and missile units launched a heavy shelling on Tahrir al-Sham’s positions and movements in al-Latamina, Kafr Zita and al-Zakah regions in Northern Hama, killing and wounding a number of terrorists and destroying several strongholds and a large volume of their military hardware.
Local sources said that the terrorists tried to open new fronts against the army in Northern regions to decrease the army’s military pressure on their comrades in Southern Syria but the army opened heavy fire and preempted the offensive.
In the meantime, the terrorists launched artillery attack on the army in Halfaya, Zalaqiyat, Zalin and al-Masaseneh region.
Meanwhile, the army helicopters embarked on distributing thousands of leaflets in militant-held region in Northern Hama, calling on terrorists to lay down arms and surrender to the government forces.