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Brief summary of the situation in Syria for January 16 [2014].
Homs.
Fights are going on within Old City area.
Terrorist attempts to break into the ancient fortress are cut short by Syrian Arab Army soldiers.
Several dwelling houses have been retaken
due to a lightning fast attack by governmental troops in Bab-Hud district.
A large bandit gang has been eliminated in Al-Mitras area of Homs province.
The bandits were trying to break into Krak des Chevaliers fortress having moved out from Al-Husen village.
The fortress occupies the dominating height and was considered unassailable during Middle Ages.
The monument of humankind history has been saved as well as a lot of lives
that could have been lost during an operation to free it.
Mortar shellings of civilian districts within Homs and its suburbs are going on.
Thus four have been killed and eleven have been wounded during another shelling,
and more than five shells have hit Al-Zahra area;
fortunately there were no victims to it but considerable material damage has been done. 16 Damascus province. 00:01:07,00 --> 00:01:08,00
A giant stash of weapons, ammunition and camouflage materials has been found within Al-Nabek area.
Everything has been stored in factory packaging.
This arsenal has been used to make improvised explosive devices
which are used by terrorists to perform acts of violence
against Syrian civilians and authorities.
Deir ez-Zor.
Counter-terror operation is going on within Deir ez-Zor industrial districts.
Territory cleanup is being done. Several adjacent lanes have been completely freed.
Aleppo.
Several cars passing by the highway have been damaged by sniper fire within eastern part of Aleppo.
Governmental troops have freed Al-Zarzur, Al-Mashbal and Makarin areas.
Makarin area has been cleaned from radical islamists belonging to Al Nusra Front and its Kataib al-Mujahedeen unit.
Terrorists have controlled this area for over a year.
They have left a lot of radical propaganda behind them.
Residential population will have to fight this just as radically.
Fortunately a synthetic detergent manufacture has been freed in the very same area.
Enough of its product has remained to basically tidy up things.
At least externally.
Regarding the internal purity.
Yabrud town.
Counter-terror operation is going on within the town.
It is known now that thirteen Syrian and Lebanese nuns of St. Thecla monastery in Maalula
along with Mother Pelageia
are kept there by force.
The nuns are alive. Probably the hijackers plan to use them as a human shield.
That's regarding the internal purity.
ANNA-News Agency. Marat Musin, Grigory Nesterov, Igor Nadyrshin, Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov.