AhlulBayt News Agency - The Syrian Army troops and popular forces repelled ISIL's attempts to prevail over the government forces' positions Southeast of Aleppo province, and inflicted a heavy death toll on the terrorists.
The Syrian army and the National Defense Force thwarted the ISIL Takfiri terrorists' attacks on their strongholds near the town of Khanasser, and forced the militants to retreat from the battlefield under the army's heavy fire.
The ISIL suffered a heavy death toll and its military equipment sustained major damage in the unsuccessful attacks.
A report said earlier today that top field commander of the Faylaq al-Sham terrorist group was killed in heavy fighting with the Syrian Army troops in the Northern part of Aleppo province near the Handarat camp.
Hakim al-Omar, the leader of Faylaq al-Sham (the Sham Legion), was killed in clashes with the Syrian government forces in al-Mallah farms.
Several more terrorists, accompanying al-Omar, were killed in the army attacks.
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