Syrian army kills 1,200 IS fighters in Aleppo
Published : 04 Jun 2017, 06:44
Updated : 04 Jun 2017, 11:19
At least 1,200 Islamic State (IS) fighters were killed during a wide-scale military offensive in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
The state news agency said the Syrian army captured 22 new villages in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo, as part of the ongoing military campaign in that part of the country.
SANA has stopped short of giving a timeframe for the operation that led to the killing of the IS militants, but the army has started its operations in eastern Aleppo countryside earlier this year, following the recapture of the eastern part of Aleppo city last December.
The army also unleashed recently the Great Dawn offensive on IS in the Syrian desert in central and eastern Syria, making notable gains against IS.
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