The city of Yabroud and its surroundings in the northern countryside of Damascus have fallen under the control of the Syrian armed forces on Sunday, following a series of special operations with units of the armed forces carried out in cooperation with civil defense forces. Expelling mercenary brigades from the Yabroud area and its surroundings dealt a fatal blow to the insurgency and its foreign supporters and likely a key event that spells a near final defeat of major foreign-backed insurgencies.
The Syrian Arab News Agency SANA quotes one of its reporters on the scene as saying that army units have restored security and stability to Yabroud after they killed large numbers of mercenary terrorists who had been stationed in Yabroud and used it as a passage to allow the entry of arms and terrorists into Syria.
The army units, the reporter added, are now in the process of combing the neighborhoods in the city and dismantling the many explosive devices which the terrorists had planted at the entrances of the city and its neighborhoods and in front of the residents’ houses.
The reporter stressed that about 150 explosive devices of various weights and types, including magnetic and trip-wire improvised explosive devices which immediately explode upon touching, were dismantled, in addition to a number of mines
The terrorists had also made a number of car tire bombs and planted them in various areas across Yabroud city, particularly at its entrance, to prevent the Syrian army’s advance, said the reporter.
The SANA reporter said that taking Yabroud was a swift military operation and that it took less than 48 hours to seize control over the entire area after first seizing control over all the city’s entrances and the surrounding hills.
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