(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 44 regime army troops and allied militants have been killed in clashes with the Islamic State in Homs and Hama province in the last 48 hours, activists said.
The regime forces backed by allied militias seek to uproot ISIS from Uqairbat village, last ISIS pocket in eastern Hama countryside. Yet, dozens of regime troops killed near the besieged pocket since May.
Clashes also took place in the eastern countryside of Homs,11 militant from the pro-regime National Defense Forces were reportedly killed near Om al-Rish village.
Also in Homs desert, 6 regime army soldiers were wounded last week in Tayfour military airbase when a huge explosion struck weapons depots.
In Hama, regime mourned Major Kheder Marouf, said he was the pilot of a helicopter shot down with a TOW missile late on Tuesday.
Rebel group Jaish al-Azza, part of the Free Syrian Army alliance, said in a statement it had “destroyed a Russian helicopter” near the village of Allatamneh in the northern countryside of Hama city.
Last week, Hayat Tahir al-Sham, former al-Qaeda group, backed by 5 rebel factions launched major attack on regime bastions in Hama and southern Idlib. The attack was the biggest in the area since March.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that rebels had launched Idlib offensive to hinder the regime's advances in Deir Ezzor province.
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