Following reconnaissance flights over Al-Badieh region, fighter-bombers of the Syrian and Russian air forces dealt heavy blows to radicals entrenched in caves or abandoned government facilities and infrastructure, in the mountainous and rocky areas in the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzor.

Sources added the attacks also targeted militants in the town of Al-Sukhna, located on the road between Deir Ezzor and Palmyra, and the mountains of Al-Bishri and the Al-Rusafa area.

These operations come a day after violent clashes occurred between the Syrian Army and Daesh terrorists in Al-Shula region in Deir Ezzor, where three soldiers and at least 10 militants were killed.

Following their defeat in 2018, remnants of Daesh forces are now resorting to hit and run tactics, counting on military intelligence instructions from the United States to wage a war of attrition against Syrian troops and their allies.

Damascus believes these radical groups are receiving logistical support, protection and intelligence information from the US military occupying the Tanef area in the easter part of this Arab nation.

Syria has been under a war imposed since 2011 and although its army, with the support of its allies Russia and Iran, managed to liberate most of the national territory from radicals, occasional skirmishes still occur.

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