The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces announced in a statement that the Syrian Arab Army, in cooperation with allied forces, liberated a large number of towns, villages, and farms in the countryside of Hama, Idlib, and Aleppo provinces from Daesh (ISIS), reported the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

The statement underlined the strategic importance of this achievement, which lies in the fact that it puts an end to the existence of ISIS terror organization in the provinces of Hama and Aleppo, and eliminates most of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the southern countryside of Aleppo.