Tal Hamam and its surrounding hills are located south of the flashpoint town of Khanaser. The army which is heading towards Aleppo is now defusing explosive devices planted by the ISIL terrorists on a road leading to the city. Reports say the main highway linking Damascus to Aleppo is now secure and would be open to traffic in the next 48 hours. Also, in the east of the country, army units have killed more than 20 Daesh terrorists and destroyed their hideouts, near Dayr al-Zawr. Meanwhile, the Red Cross has announced that a new batch of humanitarian aid organized by the Syrian government and Russia has been delivered to another besieged village in Latakia provinc