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Syrian Army, Lebanese Resistance Totally Control Assal Al-Ward Barrens
2015-05-08
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance
...that'd be Hizb'allah...
have launched an operation against the terrorist forces of Evil in Assal al-Ward barrens in al-Qalamoun.

The Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance fighters controlled al-Qarna height which consists of three hills the forces of Evil were using as hideouts, sources told al-Manar.Syrian army

The sources reported collapse within the ranks of the terrorists, noting that dozens of them were killed and injured.

The Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance totally control an area of 45 km of Assal al-Ward barrens, the sources said.

The Syrian army have been engaged in several military operations across Syria to cleanse the country from the foreign-backed Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
forces of Evil who have been since the year of 2011 commiting crims against Syrian civilians and soldiers.
An Nahar, being a Lebanese news site, sees it through a different filter:
Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
backed by Syrian forces controlled on Thursday strategic heights in the Syrian region of Qalamoun that abuts Leb's eastern border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The control of the area on the outskirts of Assal al-Wared came following heavy festivities with al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front, it said in a statement.

The battles were accompanied by heavy shelling by Syrian warplanes.

The Britannia-based Observatory stressed that there were casualties from both sides.
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