Syrian Army Seizes Western Arms in ISIL's Positions in Deir Ezzur Province

The Syrian Army continued mop-up operation in Southeastern Deir Ezzur on Saturday, and discovered several ISIL depots of arms and ammunition made in western states.

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Date: 25 August 2018 - 16:30

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The army's engineering units carried out cleansing operation in the town of Sabikhan in Southeastern Deir Ezzur and discovered a depot of arms and ammunition in ISIL's positions with a large volume of shoulder-launched missiles, cannons, tanks and mortars, including those made in the western countries.

In the meantime, other units of the army seized a large warehouse of medicines and medical equipment in a field hospital in the town of Dablan East of Deir Ezzur city that once was under ISIL's occupation.

Also, the army men found a weapon-making workshop in Sabikhan which was once used by ISIL to manufacture missiles.

In early July, the Syrian army captured a vast area in Dara'a province, and discovered several tons of weapons and ammunition, including western and US arms from terrorists.

The Arabic-language website of Sputnik news agency quoted Syrian Army General Nazar Ismail as saying on Thursday that hundreds of weapons and several tons of ammunition have been left by the terrorists who were forced to flee Dara'a during the army operations.

He added that the militants have likely smuggled the weapons via the border with Jordan.

Ismail said that 3 T62 tanks, 100 tanks from other types, a large number of military vehicles, different military equipment, 2 air defense systems, 40 anti-tank missiles, a large number of machine-guns and light weapons, over 1,000 land mines and 1,300 boxes of ammunition were seized in the town of Azra'a.

He added that samples of French and Canadian arms, a large amount of US-made foodstuff and first aid and Australian, German and Italian mine-finders were among the weapons.

In a relevant development also in early July, a large number of Israeli and American missiles were handed over to the Syrian army troops by the militant groups under a reconciliation agreement in the Southern province of Dara'a.

The militant groups that laid down arms and joined a peace plan in Southern Dara'a surrendered their US-made anti-tank missiles to the Syrian soldiers.

In the meantime, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen News Channel quoted a field commander as reporting that several Israel-made missiles were also among the arms and ammunition that the militants handed over to the Syrian army in Eastern Dara'a.

The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria announced earlier that a sum of 27 villages, townships and towns have joined the reconciliation plan in Dara'a province so far.

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