Fri Nov 25, 2016 21:29:39
Syrian government forces have discovered and destroyed a long tunnel burrowed deep underground and used by foreign-sponsored militants during a counter-terrorism operation on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
ALALAM – Syria
Unnamed military sources told Syria’s official news agency SANA on Thursday that army soldiers and pro-government fighters from popular defense groups uncovered the 250-meter-long and one-meter-wide tunnel in Harasta city, situated roughly 8 kilometers northeast of Damascus.
The sources added that terrorists with the so-called Jaysh al-Islam, formerly known as Liwa al-Islam, group used the tunnel to transfer militants in addition to ammunition, and infiltrate into government-held areas.
The Syrian Army's engineering units later placed explosives inside the tunnel, destroying it and all militants' structure built above it.
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