Two days after capturing the Al-Ahdath Juvenile Detention Center and the Al-Hasakah Power Plant, the Syrian Arab Army’s 123rd Tank Brigade of the 3rd Armored Division – in coordination with the 154th Artillery Brigade of 4th Mechanized Division, and the National Defense Forces (NDF) – expanded their buffer-zone outside of the provincial capital to 12km from the city’s gates after another day of fierce clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).

The clashes outside of the provincial capital began at 6:45 A.M. (Damascus Time) on Monday morning, when the SAA’s 123rd and 154th Brigads attacked the militants from ISIS at Aliyah, killing 11 of the enemy combatants, while confiscating a large cache of their heavy weaponry that was abandoned inside a warehouse at this village on the outskirts of Al-Hasakah City.

Following their initial assault on the village of Aliyah, the Syrian Armed Forces regrouped to launch another powerful attack on the militants of ISIS; this time, the Syrian Army’s joint forces were able to overpower the terrorist organization at this village and impose full control over all points in this area, leaving many enemy combatants dead or wounded before the latter withdrew completely.

In addition to their capture of Aliyah, the Syrian Armed Forces continued their counter-assault at the villages of Rad Shaqra, Al-Dawoudiyah, Salihiyah, and Al-Abyad, where they seek to expel the militants of ISIS after almost two weeks of continued violence in the southern part of the provincial capital’s defensive barriers.