On Monday morning, the militants from the Free Syrian Army’s “Southern Front” – alongside their allies from the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra” and Jaysh Al-Yarmouk – were surprised by a coalition of Druze militias at Tal Sikakah, resulting in the death of over 20 enemy combatants and the confiscation of their assault rifles, ammunition, and RPGs at this hill in the Al-Sweida Governorate.
The Druze militias surprise assault at Tal Sikakah began at 7:45 A.M. (Damascus Time) on Monday morning, when the militants from the FSA’s Southern Front were awoken by the sound of mortar shells raining down on their camp in the western countryside of the province; this developed into a ground assault by the Druze militias before they were able to impose full control over this strategic hill that overlooks the town of Sikakah from its western flank.
In addition to their losses at Tal Sikakah, the militants from the Southern Front and Jabhat Al-Nusra have been pushed further west from the western entrance of the Tha’lah Military Airbase, as the Al-Sweida National Defense Forces (NDF) and Jaysh Al-Muwahiddeen (Druze Army) recover over 400 meters of ground from the enemy combatants.
As a result of this success, the Druze militias and the National Defense Forces are on the verge of recapturing the remaining pocket of territory the Islamist militias control inside the Al-Sweida Governorate; this will likely put a damper on the latter’s plans to conduct an offensive at the town of Al-Ghazalah near the Syrian Government stronghold of Izra’a.
