Army and Armed Forces units thwarted an attack by ISIS terrorists on military posts in the eastern countryside of Homs province, killing scores of them and injuring others.

SANA’s reporter in Homs said that army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, engaged in violent clashes with ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups which attacked military posts in the surroundings of Maksar al-Husan village in the eastern countryside.

The reporter added that more than 40 terrorists were killed in the clashes and others were injured, while the remaining ones fled, leaving their arms and ammunition behind.

Meanwhile in Hama, an army unit thwarted an attack carried out at dawn by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists on al-Zara Power Station from the direction of Herr Benafsoh in the southern countryside of the province.

A military source said that many of the terrorists were killed or injured in the clashes, and their weapons were destroyed, while the remaining terrorists fled.