Security Forces Seize 8 Tons of Explosives in SW Syria
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syrian security forces captured a large haul of C-4 explosive from terrorists in the country’s southwestern area of Quneitra.
During an operation to cleanse Syria’s southern regions of the remnants of terrorists, the Syrian forces seized the large cache of explosives left behind by the terrorists.
The terror groups had plans to use the material to make improvised explosive devices, landmines and ammunition, SANA reported.
The large haul of C-4, a common variety of the plastic explosive family, weighs 8 tons.
The explosives were found in the terrorists’ hideouts in different areas on the outskirts of Quneitra and southwestern suburbs of Damascus.
The Syrian military forces are carrying out a clean-up operation in the rural and urban areas recaptured from the terrorist groups.
In another development in west of Syria, Syrian forces shot down two drones that terrorist groups had flown onto the northern outskirts of Hama.
The Syrian troops detonated the two unmanned aircraft which the terrorist groups were deploying over a military zone near Atshan, 30 km north of Hama.
A few days ago, the Syrian forces carried out special operations against terrorist groups in Hama in response to their continued violation of a de-escalation zones agreement in the northern province of Idlib.
Syrian forces targeted the positions of a terror outfit affiliated to al-Nusra Front militant group on the outskirts of Ma’arkaba village in the northern countryside.
The clashes broke out in a planned buffer zone, which surrounds Idlib and also parts of the adjacent provinces of Aleppo and Hama.
Under a deal reached following a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in September, all militants should have withdrawn from the demilitarization zone by October 15.
However, al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri terrorists said they refuse to either leave the buffer zone or hand over their weapons.
Moscow believed that the 15-20 kilometer buffer zone would help stop attacks from Idlib-based militants on Syrian army positions and Russia's military bases in the flashpoint region.
Idlib and some surrounding areas are the last major bastions of Takfiri terrorists and anti-government militants in Syria, where the Syrian government has in recent months retaken much of the territory it had lost since the conflict erupted in the country in 2011.
