1K+ Daesh Terrorists Killed, Injured in Palmyra Op
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A senior Russian military official announced that Syrian soldiers either killed or injured more than 1,000 members of the Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorist group during the recent victorious battle to retake Syria's central city of Palmyra from the terror outfit.
Sergei Rudskoy, the chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, released the toll on Friday.
A day earlier, the Syrian army said it had recaptured the city and driven the terrorists away with the help of Russian airpower for about a month and a half.
The Syrian forces also destroyed 19 tanks, 37 armored vehicles, 98 pickup trucks with heavy weapons mounted on them, and more than 100 automobiles during the operation, Rudskoy added.
Daesh first seized the 2,000-year-old city in May 2015 and began looting and demolishing the UNESCO world heritage site's monuments and temples.
The Syrian army initially purged the city of the Takfiris in March 2016 but lost it back to them late that year.
Palmyra is located some 225 kilometers away from Raqqah, which Daesh controls and has named as its so-called headquarters in Syria.
Reports on Saturday said the Syrian army was now engaged in mop-up operation to cleanse the city of remaining militants and explosive devices.
Syrian forces, meanwhile, built on their gains in the eastern countryside of the northwestern city of Aleppo, where they liberated three more villages from the clutches of Takfiri terrorists, Syria's Defense Ministry announced.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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