Footage captured on Monday, shows Syrian Army soldiers walking down the tunnel ‐ which according to SANA, extends for more than 400 metres ‐ and discovering an abandoned underground field hospital.
According to SANA, army units have discovered a network of tunnels extending for several kilometres and connecting Lion of Islam positions and underground bases throughout the once-militant controlled districts of Jobar, Ayn Tarma, Arbeen and Zamalka.
Footage captured on Sunday, on the national highway between Zamalka and Jobar shows the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) clearing the area from rubble and wreckage.
In the last weeks, deals were made between holy warriors and Syrian government forces, which allowed holy warriors and their families to relocate out of the Eastern Ghouta area into the northwest of Syria.
Syrian rebel group released 5 prisoners in Eastern Ghouta under deal : Monitor, State TV
[AlAhram] Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...released five prisoners including civilians on Wednesday as part of a deal over the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The UK-based war monitor said the murderous Moslems had kidnapped them from the nearby town of Adra around five years ago.
Syrian state TV separately said the army had freed four women and a man from the hard boyz as part of "efforts...to liberate all the prisoners in Douma."
Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, have now recaptured nearly all of eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, from the rebels in a ferocious assault that began in February, marking a major victory for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Jaish al-Islam holds more than 3,500 prisoners and hostages in total, Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, told Rooters.