Terrorists surrender in southwest Syria

Foreign-backed terrorists operating in Syria have surrendered in an area in the country’s southwest under a deal with the government enabling their evacuation to the northwestern Idlib Province.

The terrorists began leaving Beit Jin Village on Friday, Reuters reported. It cited a “field officer” as saying that once the evacuations are through, the village would return to the “homeland Syria.”

Damascus has liberated numerous areas across the country on the back of similar agreements.

The government is, meanwhile, advancing in Idlib. The province holds the largest concentration of militants and Takfiri terrorists.

Separately, a Syrian army unit discovered large weapon caches in Dayr al-Zawr, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Friday.

The weapons included mortar rounds, various machine guns, and rockets, a number of which were US-made.

This is not the first time Syrian forces find foreign-made weapons in militant strongholds. Weapons made by NATO member states as well as by Israeli have been found in the past.

Also on Friday, SANA said two mass graves had been found in the countryside of the northern city of Raqqah.

The graves contained the bodies of civilians and servicemen executed by the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh, which used to occupy the city.

SANA cited a military commander as saying that the mass graves had been found in the town of al-Wawi in the city.

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