(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Syrian state news agency quoted the head of the Syrian Fuel Transportation Company in Homs province, Suleiman Jweikha, as saying "A terrorist group targeted al-Wassita station to the West of al-Zara town in Talkalakh countryside with mortar shells, damaging the station's tanks and causing fire in them where 688 cubic meters were burnt.
He clarified that fire fighters from Homs and Tartous Provinces put the fire off at 12 am.
Meantime, army units targeted terrorist groups' hideouts in several neighborhoods in Homs and its countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon them.
A military source said that units of the armed forces targeted terrorists dens in al-Khaldieh, Bab Hud, al-Qarabis, Jourt al-Shayyah, Wadi al-Sayyeh and al-Kosour neighborhoods in Homs and al-Dar al-Kabira, Talbiseh, Bait Hajjo, al-Mshjar al-Janoubi, al-Rastan, al-Amerieh , Bait Qaswat, Eyoun Hussein, Kisin in Homs countryside.
The army also killed and injured a number of terrorists and destroyed their weapons.
The source added that another unit of the army confronted terrorist groups' attack against military checkpoints in Palmyra, killing a number of terrorists and destroying their tools.
Jabhat al-Nusra-linked terrorists eliminated in Deir Ezzor
In Deir Ezzor, in a qualitative operation, a unit of the army destroyed Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists' gathering in Kabajib village on Deir Ezzor-Damascus highway.
The news agency reporter quoted a source in the province as saying that the operation resulted in the killing and injury of a number of terrorists.
The source added that another unit of the army eliminated a terrorist group in Huwijet Saker and destroyed weapons ammunition which they were trying to enter to Deir Ezzor city.
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