The document provides a summary of recent events in Syria from the perspective of the Syrian government. It reports that the Syrian Arab Army has killed various terrorist group leaders and fighters across several cities and regions of Syria, including Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, and Idlib. It also notes that Venezuela, Brazil, Iraq, and Russia have expressed support for a political solution to the crisis and warned against foreign interference or arms smuggling. The Syrian government allocated 512 billion Syrian pounds to support basic materials and food during the current year.

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Syrian Arab Republic
Ministry of Information
The Directorate of
Electronic Information
Page NO.1
Ghulam Imam and Abu Draa
killed in Damascus
An military source in country-
side of Damascus said, that the
forces of the Syrian army was
killed in (Kaboun) “Muhannad
Junaid” a leader of (Lewa Jaech
Al-Mouslmeen) and a number
of its members, and in (Hus-
seinia) and (Alveabih) an units
of army ruled on terrorists be-
longing to “Jabhat Al-Nousra”,
including Pakistan “Ghulam
Mohammad Imam” and “Ah-
mad Abu Draa” a leader of one
terrorist groups, while targeted
the dens of armed men in (Jo-
bar) and (Harasta). In (Duma)
the army killed militants of
“Lewa Shouhdaa Doma” and
caused to them losses in gear,
and destroyed a car packed
with arms and ammunition
in (Darya), and killed 7 ter-
rorists “Jabhat Al-Nousra” in
(Yabrood) city and sized heavy
machine guns confiscated and
destroyed a gathering of terror-
ists in (Zabadane).
countryside of Latakia is under control
Syrian Arab Army continued
of its operations in countryside
of Latakia, where dominated
the Mount prophet (Isaiah)
and surrounding areas after
destroyed the headquarters of
terrorists, including weapons
and ammunition, and disman-
tled the explosive devices, and
had fully controlling on a hill
(Batich) and Mount (Roto) and
(Tel Doreen) in northern coun-
tryside and killed a members of
terrorist groups and sized their
weapons, including mortars. In
a related context, a director of
the Syrian Observatory for Hu-
man Rights said that a battle “
Freeing the coast” has the par-
ticipation of fighters from non-
Syrian nationalities, especially
the Libyan, Tunisian and some
Gulf countries, admitting that
it was among the dead a Liby-
an prince in the “Islamic State
in Iraq and the Levant”.

2. In the countryside of Daraa,
the Syrian Arab Army killed a
Jordanian terrorists, and de-
stroyed their dens and weapons
in (Naemeh) , (Tafas), (Mali-
ha) , (Angel) and (Jassem). The
British newspaper (The Times)
mentioned in an article yester-
day, citing from sources U.S.
intelligence has revealed that
10 thousand foreigners fight-
ing alongside the armed terror-
ist groups in Syria, including
150 holding British citizenship,
and that the influx of foreign-
ers has increased significantly
over the last two or three past
months, but sources pointed
out that the presence of such a
large number of “jihadists” in
Syria is poses the biggest chal-
lenge for the United States and
other countries that decided to
arm the armed groups.
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In Homs and its countryside, fell
rocket-propelled grenades at the
village (Umm Al-Aamad) which
killing 5 civilians and wounding
25 others, a military source said
that the army units have caused
deaths and injuries in the ranks
of terrorist groups whose tried
to infiltrate from (Jarrod Arsal)
in Lebanese territory to coun-
tryside of (Al-Kouser), and frus-
Syrian Aarab Army continued
his operations in Aleppo and
its countryside, and coast a
large losses in lives to terrorists
groups which belong to “Jabhat
Al-Nousra” on the road (Haian-
Al mousalmia), and destroyed
5 cars loaded with weapons
on the road (Kastelo-Hretan)
in countryside of Aleppo, and
spent rocket launchers and mor-
tars in the villages (AlJadeda)
and (Kwers) in south-east coun-
tryside of Aleppo, a source has
stated that the army set broad-
cast space inside a den of ter-
Missiles in Homs
Terrorists dead in countryside of Aleppo
trated infiltration again attempt
(Talbisa), while dismantled two
explosive devices primed to
detonate remote weighing 60 kg
on the road to (Homs Palmyra),
and found the ammunition depot
containing rockets and mortars
near the village of (Jawadah),
and destroyed a gathering of ter-
rorists including weapons and
launcher rockets in countryside
of Homs, and targeted insurgents
in the towns and villages (Al-
Dar Al-Kabera) and (Al-Hosen),
and killing others gunmen in the
neighborhoods of (Bab Sbaa) ,
(Alaqrabas) and (Bab Hood).
rorists in the neighborhood
(Seif El Dawla) of Aleppo. The
army has confronted terrorists
assaulted on a military point
in (al-Hasakah) and caused to
them a huge losses, while the
army destroyed a dens of terror-
ists in the area in countryside of
(Hasakah) and spent all of it.
Weapons and ammunition in Hama and Idlib
In countryside of Hama, the
armed forces destroyed launcher
rockets and heavy machine guns
to terrorists and caused scores of
deaths and injuries among their
ranks, and targeted the head-
quarters of terrorists in the city
of (Alsagalbeh) and north of the
village (Alhbit) and the town of
(Racha), and killing others in
Thousands
of foreigners are
“jihadists” in Syria
the town (Kasabeen), while the
foiled attempt to blow up an ex-
plosive device weighing 40 kg
near the secondary (Al-Thwra)
in countryside of Hama. In Idlib,
the army killed a terrorist ele-
ments in east of (Jericho) and the
Mount (Al-Arbeen) and the vil-
lages and towns of (Dana) and a
southwest of (Abu Aldhor).

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Venezuela and Brazil during
the session of the internation-
al Security Council on saving
citizens reiterated their refus-
Venezuela, Brazil no foreign interference in Syria
al of any foreign interference
in the Syrian affairs and their
support to find a peaceful so-
lution of the crisis. And they
Gennady Gatilov deputy Rus-
sian Foreign Minister an-
nounced that the Russian-
American meeting to prepare
for the Geneva 2 conference
will take place next week in
The Hague at the level of dep-
uty foreign ministers of the
two countries with the partici-
pation of UN envoy to Syria,
Lakhdar Brahimi, in a state-
ment quoted by the Itar-Tass
news agency. While Gennady
Zoganov the head of the Com-
munist Party of the Russian
Federation in an interview
with SANA correspondent
confirmed in Moscow that
Syria has proved to the whole
world that they are able to de-
fend itself against terrorism
and that victory will be its ally.
American - Russian
meeting next week
warned of the consequences
of smuggling weapons to the
armed groups in Syria which
lead to more violence.
Iraqi Prime Minister NouriAl-
Malki reiterated his country
support the exerted efforts to
find apolitical solution to the
Syrian crisis via dialogue, ac-
cording to a statement issued
from the Iraqi presidency of
ministers, Al-Malki during his
meetingtheUNsecretaryGen-
eral for political affairs Gef-
fri Feltman, Al-Malki called
on the UN and International
Community and countries in
Al-Malki supports the political solution in Syria
the region to put pressure on
the different parties in Syria
to go to the dialogue table and
to find a solution to the crisis,
he warned of the extremism
and terrorism by some parties
in the region. The statement
noted that Feltman confirmed
his fully agreement on what
al-Malki has proposed, noting
that Iraq should participate in
any international conference
on Syria.

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Organization of internation-
al alliance to combat escape
from punishment (Rights)
during an international con-
ference held in collaboration
with the Spanish Republican
social moving in Beirut yes-
terday pointed to the facili-
tating operations to transfer
weapons to Syria and train-
ing terrorists by the Leba-
nese, Qataris and Turkish.
Lawyer Mai Khansaa head
of the organization said that
they will submit their report
Terrorists’ crimes in Syria
to the UN secretary General
and the international secu-
rity council and those in-
ternational responsible for
monitoring crimes, which
is considered as a complaint
Ministry of Information con-
demned the terrorist massa-
cre against the Egyptian po-
lice near Rafah, North Sinai
and considered it a shame-
ful terrorist act, the minis-
try offered on behalf of the
Syrian people condolences
to the Egyptian people and
the families of the martyrs.
25 Egyptian soldiers of the
Central Security were killed
and two others were injured
by armed attack on two bus-
es near Rafah, North Sinai.
Information Minister Om-
ran Al-Zoubi said “Turk-
ish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan is suffer-
ing depression of defeated,
who does not want to admit
his failure and the logic of
Erdogan irresponsible and
lost balance,” he added that
Erdogan’s political memory
is Off and all what he want
dreams of empire disap-
peared.
Syria condemns
Egyptian massacre
against Israel, Turkey, Qa-
tar, Saudi Arabia and some
Lebanese parties because
the international community
recognize only by documen-
tation.
Dr. Faisal Al-Mekdad Dep-
uty Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs and Emigrants during
meeting yesterday Yaacoup
Al-Helo Resident Repre-
sentative of the United Na-
tions and coordinator of
humanitarian activities in
Syria, welcomed the efforts
of the international organiza-
tion, especially those relat-
ing to the work of relief and
Al-Miqdad.. Facilities for the delivery of aid
humanitarian assistance in
light of the circumstances of
the country, stressing on the
readiness of the government
to provide all the facilities
for the delivery of human-
ity aid of all Syrian citizens.
For his part, Sweet that the
United Nations will intensify
its efforts in the field of hu-
manitarian and relief work in
Syria.

5. number of observers , and to
take action of administrative
pricing that ensures no manip-
ulation of prices of materials.
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Dr. Wael Al-Halqi explained
yesterday during his participa-
tion in the work of the Annual
General Conference 36 of the
Dental Association in “Da-
marose” hotel under the title
“Syria for all .. and everyone
for Syria that the Government
allocated 512 billion Syrian
pounds to support the basic
materials and food and oil de-
rivatives during the current
The Syrian short film
“Dawaran” won Award of
Merit in the competition for
the best short films of the
in California in the United
States of America, and the
film is written by Ali Wajeeh.
512 billion for basic materials
year in parallel with the price
control in the market, and take
deterrent measures against of-
fenders, and to increase the
Rafik al-Sabban.. passed away
“Dawaran” won Award of Merit of the “Best Shorts”
The critic and screenwriter Rafik Sabban
passed away at the age of 82 years old,
leaving behind a rich legacy of films, plays
and serials and evening television in addi-
tion to a large number of critical articles,
research .