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AMMAN, Nov 18 (KUNA) -- The armed groups positioned in Eastern Ghouta hit several residential areas in Damascus and its countryside, at a time when Syrian regime's forces tightened control over last headquarters of so-called Islamic State in Albu Kamal, said a Damascus Police Command source Saturday.
One person was killed and 20 others injured today as some rocket shells fired by the armed groups targeted the surrounding of Al-Mujtahed Hospital in Damascus, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, citing the source.
The groups also fired rocket shells on the entrance of Al-Dwail'a residential neighborhood and the schools' complex in the neighborhood in Damascus city, causing material damage to schools, but no casualties, the source noted.
It pointed out that four rocket shells landed in Harsa residential suburb, in Damascus countryside, and five others in Al-Sayyida Zaynab area, injuring nine civilians and causing massive material losses to the locals' houses and proerties.
The agency said the Syrian army and its allies engaged in fierce clashes with the remaining militants of the so-called Islamic State in the outskirts of the city of Albu Kamal, inflicting heavy losses on individuals and equipment.
It indicated that the army and its allies managed to isolate the city from both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border and the train station and surrounded the fighters "dashing" in small pockets.
It confirmed that the army and its allies fully controlled the road between the fields and Albu Kamal and the town of Al-Sukariya and Hamdan area in the vicinity of Albu Kamal after they had inflicted heavy losses on the organization and personnel.
The IS retook Albu Kamal city after it had managed, in a reverse attack, to drive Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iraqi popular crowd out of the city.
But IS will be totally defeated, if the Syrian regime recaptures Albu Kamal, according to NASA. (end)
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