The military operation against the militants of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” in the province of Sweida continues for several days, as reported by Oleg Blokhin, a military correspondent for the Russkaya Vesna news agency.
According to him, the operation takes place with the participation of an impressive part of the Syrian Arab army: “Namely: the third, tenth, fourteenth and fifteenth divisions. They come from the west, southward moving troops Rashid militia. From the north, the first and third divisions of the SAA advance. “
He reports that on the day the troops advance 15 kilometers. The principle of carrying out the operation is as follows: first, ground reconnaissance and UAVs locate the positions of the militants, after that they detach the artillery fire, use aviation, followed by the infantry.
Blokhin also emphasizes the fact that the militants have long lost their combat effectiveness: “For today they can not offer any intelligible resistance. The situation in this war has completely changed in favor of government forces. “
At the same time, the terrorists managed to inflict two notable blows, attacking the settlements adjacent to the desert, where about three hundred people were killed or wounded, and attacking the airbase in Sweida, where about forty SAA fighters were killed in the clash.