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(FNA) ~ Hundreds of foreign-backed militants surrendered to the government troops in Al-Qalamoun region in Damascus countryside, Syria’s National Reconciliation Committee announced on Friday.
Over 1,200 terrorists laid down arms and surrendered to the Syrian authorities late Thursday, the Syrian local sources also confirmed.
The militants also turned over their cache of ammos to the authorities, both sources added.
The development came after President Bashar al-Assad in a televised address in July pardoned all soldiers who have fled the army, saying that his words served as a general decree to relevant officials.
Assad said even those who have fought the Syrian army will be pardoned. This was the third general amnesty declared by President Assad in the last four years.
Hundreds of gunmen have been laying down their weapons and turning themselves in to authorities in areas across the country.
This number seems to be on the rise as the army has been making steady gains in the battlefield against the terrorist groups, recapturing an increasing number of areas, including strategic sites, which helped cut off many of the militants’ supply routes and forced them to surrender or run away.
Several groups of militants have surrendered to the Syrian army in the Damascus Countryside in the last several months. The last one of such groups gave in to the authorities in the region in mid February.
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I am an Australian Citizen and I am disgusted at what successive Australian Governments have become; unapologetic vassals of the US. There is no doubt there are war crime charges to be answered by previous and possibly current elected representatives. These same supposed representatives of freedom, democracy, and self determination remain silent on nearly every issue of direct, or sponsored, state violence as conducted the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey etc. In their silence they are condemned as they condone the use of violence, destruction, and terror as a valid means to an end yet have little concept of what that “end” actually entails or means. The same misanthropes now claim to serve the Australian people by blocking the current trickle, compared to the millions worldwide, of refugees fleeing the violence they themselves have helped create and which they continue to support. These are NOT the wishes or actions of the majority of ordinary decent Australian people.
Thank to the Australian friends who have understood the criminal plot orchestrated by US-Israel and their enslaved nations