Syrian army destroys rocket launcher, kills scores of non-Syrian militants

A unit of the Syrian armed forces killed a number of militants in al-Nazihim camp, al-Hamidin neighborhood and Tariq al-Sad in Daraa city, among them militants Mahmoud Naser-eddin al-Khudr and Hani Mohammad al-Ghabaghibi and destroyed a rocket launcher, a military source said. The source added that another army unit carried out a series of operations against militants in the villages of Kfer Shams, al-Yadodeh, al-Mzairib, Tafas, Saida, Busr al-Harir, Itman, Maeineh, Sheikh Sa'ad, Idwan, al-Rafid, al-Hairan, al-Za'arorah and al-Ma'laka in Daraa countryside, killing and injuring a number of militants, SANA reported. Libyan terrorist Shwaf Abdel-Hamid al-Hofi and Jordanian terrorist Abu al-Baraa, who were affiliated to al-Nusra Front, in addition to militants Hussein Faisal al-Shatar, Reziq Marae al-Asa'ad, Ali Ayesh al-Shatar, Ahmad Maddallah al-Rahil, Ayoub Mohammad al-Itmeh, Mohammad Khalil al-Itmeh, Mohammad Marae al-Shatar and a militant nicknamed Abi Baker, were identified among the dead.