(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Syrian Army troops thwarted ISIS terrorists' plan to explode a bomb-laden suicide truck in Aleppo city in a preemptive attack, destroying the truck.
A group of ISIL terrorists had planned to dispatch a bomb-laden suicide truck to Aleppo city from Ithriya-Khanasser road, but the army men identified the truck and detonated it.
In the meantime, the terrorists deployed near the Ithriya-Khanasser road carried out several attacks to occupy villages in the region and insecure the road, but their attacks were repelled by the army soldiers.
Also in the past 24 hours, the Syrian Army's engineering units that were carrying out demining operation in the Eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city found a large volume of Saudi chemicals that were used by Jeish al-Fatah terrorists to make chemical weapons.
The engineering units seized a large volume of sulfur, chlorine and raw materials that are used in the plastic industries in a warehouse that was used by the terrorists in old Aleppo neighborhoods.
Jeish al-Fatah terrorists used these chemicals to build explosives to target residential areas in Aleppo.
Syrian Army aircraft also targeted terrorists' bases and gatherings South of the strategic town of al-Bab North-East of Aleppo province on Wednesday, killing and wounding a number of militants.
The warplanes and choppers carried out several rounds of joint combat flights over terrorists' concentration centers and positions South of al-Bab, leaving a number of terrorists dead and wounded.
A military source also said that the Syrian government forces are to start a large-scale operation to hit the ISIS terrorists in Eastern Aleppo in coming days.
Reports said almost 6,000 army soldiers have been deployed near the Kuweires airbase waiting for the Damascus order to start a large-scale operation against the ISIS terrorists in the two key regions of al-Bab and Deir Hafer in Aleppo.
Also on Wednesday, Syrian Army troops and their popular allies stormed the positions of Jeish al-Fatah - a coalition of a dozen terrorist groups mainly from Al-Nusra Front - in Southern Aleppo after terrorists breached the recently-brokered ceasefire.
The pro-government forces, deployed in the towns of al-Hadhar and al-Howeiz, started their attacks of Jeish al-Fatah's positions near the key town of Khan Touman from several directions.
The army aircraft carried out several combat sorties over Jeish al-Fatah's gatherings in the towns and villages of Albu'eize, al-Ziyarh, Khan Touman, Khalseh and Sater al-Sabeqiyeh, inflicting major casualties on the militants.
Syrian soldiers, the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and the Iraqi al-Nujaba Movements' combatants are about to carry out a joint operation on the Southern outskirts of Aleppo city to liberate the districts of Rashedeen 4 and 5 and then rush to Khan Touman to free the town.
In the meantime, hundreds of pro-government forces have been deployed in areas just to the South of Aleppo after their great victories against Jeish al-Fatah in November.
The army is resolved to purge the Southwestern territories of Aleppo of terrorists following its victories against militants in the Eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo and repelling two large-scale attacks of terrorists in the Western districts of Aleppo city.
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