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WATCH Syrian Militants Hand Over Missiles, Allegedly Made in US and Israel
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According to an agreement reached between Damascus and the militants, they handed over dozens of armored vehicles, as well as small arms, anti-tank weapons and US and Israeli-made missiles.

The Syrian state-run news agency SANA has released a footage, showing militants handing over a large cache of arms, including missiles allegedly made in the United States, to the government in Eastern Qalamoun on Damascus' outskirts.

This has been not the first time the Syrian media released video of weapons, captured from terrorists, some of which were allegedly made in NATO states and Israel.

READ MORE: Syrian Army Reportedly Finds NATO, Israeli-Made Weapons in Daesh Arsenal (VIDEO)

Most recently, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation reported that over 1,100 militants and their family members had left the Eastern Qalamoun district in the Syrian province of Damascus via Ruheiba humanitarian corridor.

According to the center's commander, during the evacuation militants handed over nine weapons, 8,500 munitions, 212 hand grenades, and a suicide bomber belt to the servicemen of the reconciliation center.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804231063811532-syria-terrorists-weapons/
 
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BEIRUT: At least 18 pro-Syrian regime combatants have been killed in 24 hours of fighting in southern Damascus against Daesh, a monitor said Tuesday.

That brought to at least 52 the number of pro-government fighters killed in nearly a week of military operations against Yarmuk and adjacent Daesh-held neighborhoods, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

No confirmation of the casualties was available from Syrian officials, who do not usually disclose losses within army ranks.

The Britain-based Observatory said at least 35 militant fighters were also killed during the same period.
There are an estimated 1,000 Daesh fighters left inside the enclave in the capital’s southern neighborhoods, which include Yarmuk and the adjacent districts of Hajjar Al-Aswad and Qadam.

In Qadam on Tuesday, soldiers could be seen pushing a fresh advance, backed by Syrian government air strikes and artillery fire, during an organized press tour.

Columns of black smoke were snaking up from a monochrome sea of devastated buildings.

The salvos of shelling paused briefly, and the steady crack of machine gun fire took their place.

Barricades sealed off every street in Qadam, which was once a bustling stop on Syria’s train line but whose carriages are now abandoned and left in ruins.

From their perch in Yarmuk — which has a view of the presidential palace in Damascus — militants have fired rockets on the capital’s center.

According to state news agency SANA, five civilians were killed Tuesday when a mortar shell crashed into a market area.

The Observatory said the fighting on the ground was fierce, as Daesh attempted a desperate defense of one of its very last bastions in the country.

The Syrian government plans to recover an opposition-held pocket north of Homs city soon after it completes surrender deals with armed groups around the capital Damascus, a Syrian government minister said on Tuesday.
In recent days rebels in two other enclaves northeast of Damascus, Dumair and east Qalamoun, surrendered and agreed to be transferred by bus to opposition territory in northern Syria.

Ali Haidar, the Syrian minister responsible for national reconciliation, told Reuters in an interview the government would focus on recovering an opposition-held pocket north of the city of Homs after securing the areas around Damascus.

“The issue will not be a long time coming after the final resolution in Qalamoun,” Haidar said.

Haidar said the government had for a while been dropping leaflets and communicating with rebels in the opposition-held towns of Rastan, Talbiseh and Houla in northern Homs province.

“Today there is serious work in that area,” he said.

“Armed groups wait to feel the seriousness and determination of the state’s military action before they approach serious discussion of a reconciliation agreement.”

Haidar said such reconciliation deals are also on offer to rebels in southern Syria, where a de-escalation zone was agreed by the United States and Russia last year.

“The options are open: full reconciliation or military action where necessary.”

But he indicated that retaking areas around Damascus and Homs — the last rebel areas entirely besieged by the government — were the immediate priorities.

After the crumbling of its so-called “caliphate” including its main urban bastions in Syria’s north and east, Daesh is estimated to hold five percent of the country’s territory.

Daesh entrenched itself in large parts of Yarmuk in 2015 and has managed to stay on since then.

The Syrian army’s focus on Yarmuk, once the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, comes as part of its campaign to secure the capital.

It recently retook the opposition enclave of Eastern Ghouta, then reached a string of deals last week for the transfer to northern Syria of rebels who had been allowed to remain in villages near Damascus as part of 2016 reconciliation agreements.

A successful operation in Yarmuk, which is anticipated, would seal the regime’s reconquest of the capital, a major prize for a resurgent President Bashar Assad.

More than 350,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad broke out in 2011 and millions have been displaced.
 
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Assad is really cleaning out the rat infestation nicely now... not even zionist propaganda, chemical weapons or western airforces can slow him down at this point

speaking of Zionists... don't worry, iran hasn't forgetten about you either. <3

Iran will retaliate, get over it.
Khamenai and Putin repeat USSR mistake in Afghanistan. Instead developing their economy they spend billions to slaughter people in Syria. Oil is running out, alternative sources and electric cars are rapidly developing, demographic crisis is near. Alas simple Iranians and Russians will be those who suffer from their leaders idiocy. They already suffer.
 
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OPCW Founds No Chemical Weapons at Syrian Facilities Bombed by US - Russian MoD
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The US, alongside France and the UK, launched a massive missile attack against Syria on April 14 in response to what the Western states claim had been a chemical attack in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, which had been immediately blamed on Damascus.

Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy has announced that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had confirmed that there were no chemical weapons found at the Barzeh research center in Damascus despite the US officials' claims.

The ministry further noted that thousands of people could have died if there was any chemical weapon on the sites that were attacked by the US-led coalition.

"Shortly after the airstrikes, many people visited those sites without any protective equipment. No one got any signs of gas-poisoning," Colonel-General Sergey Rudskoy said.

On US Airstrikes in Syria

Russian specialists are examining missiles of the US-led coalition, including Tomahawk, which were captured in Syria to improve Russian weapons, Rudskoy said Wednesday.

"Two [missiles] including Tomahawk cruise missile and a high-precision aviation missile were delivered to Moscow… They are now being examined by our experts. The results of this work will be used to improve Russian weapons," he told a briefing.

At the same time, according to the senior military official, Russia will supply new air defense systems to Syria in the near future.

"Russian specialists will continue training Syrian military personnel, and will assist in mastering new air defense systems, which will be supplied in the near future," Rudskoy said.

Earlier, reports have emerged about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, published by an online Syrian opposition news portals on April 7, claiming that a chemical attack took place in Syria in the city of Douma near Damascus.

Reacting to the reports, the United States and the European Union said the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad was behind the attack.

Moscow has called the news reports about the attack "hoaxes" and warned against military attacks against Syrian areas where Russian troops are deployed. The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria representatives inspected the location of the alleged attack and questioned local doctors, who said that they had not received individuals with symptoms of any chemical poisoning.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804251063884207-opcw-chemical-weapons-syria-damascus/
 
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Khamenai and Putin repeat USSR mistake in Afghanistan. Instead developing their economy they spend billions to slaughter people in Syria. Oil is running out, alternative sources and electric cars are rapidly developing, demographic crisis is near. Alas simple Iranians and Russians will be those who suffer from their leaders idiocy. They already suffer.

Not even close to slaughtering. Anyone who don't like Assad went to the north, except ISIS who get exterminated.
 
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Not even close to slaughtering. Anyone who don't like Assad went to the north, except ISIS who get exterminated.
Half million Syrians were slaughtered directly over 1.5 million total casualties as result of Khamenai aka Putin scorched earth policies.
 
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Half million Syrians were slaughtered directly over 1.5 million total casualties as result of Khamenai aka Putin scorched earth policies.

Yet Syria's population is exploding. So what are you worrying about? Life and death. It's nature's cycle.
 
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