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Syrian government forces have retaken the villages of Umm Suhrej, Alam Sharqiun, Al Harash, Khirbat Habl and Khirbat Haywaniyat from ISIS terrorists in the eastern Hama countryisde. With this advance the army and its allies further decreased the sieze of the ISIS-held pocket in the area that is now rapidly shrinking.
Meanwhile, Russian and Syrian warplanes have carried out at least 8 airstrikes on ISIS positions southwest of the government-held town of Uqayribat, according to local sources.
Yesterday, government troops retook a number of areas in eastern Hama, including Um Sahareej that had been one of the important ISIS defense sites in the southwestern part of the ISIS-held pocket.
