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“The operation was carried out with combat units and special tactics [so] that the terrorist organization lost the ability to maneuver,” the regime said. Suicide bombers tried to target the Syrian soldiers, but were stopped with “heavy losses to equipment and personnel.” Damascus claimed that in its campaign against ISIS near the Golan Heights it had come across American-made TOW anti-tank missiles, Israeli-made food and “remnants of the so-called ‘White Helmets.’”The Syrian regime has repeatedly tried to push the narrative that paints ISIS as part of a US-Israeli-Syrian rebel conspiracy created by the West.The aerial bombardment of ISIS was heavy on Sunday and Monday, with a major bombing of Kuwayah on the Jordan border. Video taken from Israel and Jordan showed smoke billowing upwards as the regime hammered ISIS-held areas. Local media and online commentators who follow events in southern Syria closely, including Al-Masdar News and SouthFront, also reported that the ISIS pocket had fallen.Meanwhile, ISIS members in the Syrian desert were reported on Monday to be holding 30 Druze women and children, 16 more than previously thought.They were kidnapped by ISIS last week during a massacre of Druze in Suwayda and its surrounding villages. The death toll now is up to 255 Druze civilians. The images of 14 kidnapped Druze women were broadcasted by ISIS over the weekend, but the revelation that 16 children were also kidnapped by the extremists comes from a new report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Several women and children thought to be kidnapped had escaped over the weekend and they were shown on video in a Druze village being greeted by men who had taken up arms to defeat ISIS.ISIS has threatened to harm the women it has kidnapped if certain demands are not met.It was thought that ISIS had snatched the women to stop the offensive near the Golan, but with the offensive complete and ISIS defeated near the Golan, its members near Suwayda still hold the women and children.