A military source said that the army clashed with Daesh terrorists as they attempted to take control over al Hifna well near al Sikhna town, 40 kilometers to the northeast of Palmyra city.

The source added that scores of the terrorists were killed and others were injured in the clashes and their vehicles and ammunition were destroyed, according to SANA News Agency on Saturday.

The source added that units of the army and the armed forces carried out concentrated operations against dens of the terrorist organizations in the villages of Um Sahrij, southern al Mushairfa, Rajm al Ali, Salam Sharqi and Unq al-Hawa in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing a number of terrorists and destroying their arms and vehicles.

In Homs northern countryside, units of the army destroyed two dens of the terrorists of Jabhat al Nusra and the so-called Homs Legion and al Farouq Brigades in the villages of Deir Foul and al Ghantou near al Rastana.