In a related development, Syrian army advanced towards Arak region in the Eastern countryside of Palmyra city and has managed to approach Arak and T3 gas fields.
Assad has compared his country's war against rebels to the conflict between security forces and Islamist militants that devastated Algeria during the 1990s. The Syrian army and the resistance forces continued their advances in the Eastern part of Homs province, and started fresh operations to seize back several important areas near the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur).
Assad forces won back the strategic cities of Palmyra and Quaryatayn in the part month. If the army purges terrorists from Arak gas field in the coming days, the next destination will be the strategic city of al-Sukhneh which would mean cutting off ISIL's main supply route between Deir Ezzur and Raqqa provinces.
The Syrian warplanes bombed a number of the ISIL machinegun-equipped vehicles on a road in the Eastern part of Quaryatayn, which not only claimed the lives of several militants but destroyed the vehicles in large scale.
The Syrian Army's aircraft, in the meantime, targeted a supplying route of the ISIL between the Arak oilfield and Eastern part of Palmyra, which ended in the destruction of most of the column's vehicles.
An ISIL site in the Northern mountain of Palmyra came also under the heavy bombardments of the Syrian jets.
A report said also on Sunday that the Syrian popular forces killed and injured several terrorists in a successful ambush in the Northern part of Homs province.
At least two terrorists were killed and several others were injured when the popular forces ambushed them in the Northern part of the village of Kafar Nan in Northern Homs.
As Regard his visitor, Assad thanked Algeria's minister for the Arab League, Abdelkader Messahel, that Algiers was standing by Damascus in the five-year conflict, SANA news agency reported.
They discussed "the danger of terrorism and the importance of uniting efforts of all countries to fight it", SANA said.
Messahel's mission to Damascus follows Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem's visit to Algeria in late March.
Algeria has systematically abstained in Arab League votes slapping sanctions on the Assad regime.
Syria was suspended from the pan-Arab body in 2011 over its brutal response to anti-government protests that escalated into a multi-sided conflict that has killed more than 270,000 people.
They discussed "the danger of terrorism and the importance of uniting efforts of all countries to fight it", SANA said.
Messahel's mission to Damascus follows Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem's visit to Algeria in late March.
Algeria has systematically abstained in Arab League votes slapping sanctions on the Assad regime.
Syria was suspended from the pan-Arab body in 2011 over its brutal response to anti-government protests that escalated into a multi-sided conflict that has killed more than 270,000 people.
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