(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The ISIL terrorists failed again to break through the government forces' positions at Air Force Academy East of Aleppo province and retreated from the battlefield after several hours of clashes.
The ISIL terrorists in the village of Rasm al-Kama in Deir Hafer region attacked army positions in the village of Ansarullah near the Aleppo Air Force Academy, but the army men engaged in fierce clashes with them and inflicted a number of causalities on the terrorists.
The army men also destroyed three military vehicles of the ISIL terrorists.
The army troops also targeted the gatherings and movements of terrorists in South of Aran near the Air Force Academy, killing several militants and destroying two canons.
Also, on Wednesday, the Russian Peace Coordination Center in Syria announced that the country's experts have cleared mines from 966 hectares of the newly-liberated neighborhoods of Eastern Aleppo city since December 5.
The Russian center said in a statement that an area as large as 966 hectares (each hectare equals 10,000 sq-m) has been cleansed from mines and bombs planted by Jeish al-Fatah coalition of terrorist groups in the Eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city.
The statement added that approximately 350 km of roads, 2,149 houses, 44 schools, 38 mosques, ten hospitals and clinics, a water pumping station and two power transition stations and a water treatment plant have been demined.
The statement added that the Russian soldiers managed to defuse over 14,700 bombs including 6,700 hand-mad grenades.
Also in the past 24 hours, a large number of Syrian families started returning to their homes after all terrorists were forced out of the Eastern districts of Aleppo city.
Hundreds of families from Eastern Aleppo's Seif al-Doleh are now back to their houses after the Syrian and Russian troops finished defusing mines and bombs planted by the terrorists.
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