On Saturday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s elite special operations unit known as the “Cheetah Forces” (Tiger Forces branch) carried out a powerful assault on the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham’s (ISIS) positions inside the Aleppo Governorate’s eastern countryside, where they captured large chunks of territory from the aforementioned terrorist group near the Kuweires Military Airport.

According to a military source from the Tiger Forces in the Al-Safeera District of east Aleppo, the Cheetah Forces – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Kataebat Al-Ba’ath (Al-Ba’ath Battalion) captured the villages of Baqijah, Al-Barihiyah, and Al-Dakwanah after intense firefights with ISIS that left over 30 enemy combatants killed and a half dozen armored vehicles mounted with a 23mm anti-aircraft machine gun destroyed.