Last batch of terrorists evacuate East Qalamoun: Syrian media

Law and order has been restored to Syria's East Qalamoun region after the final batch of terrorists leave the enclave located in the suburbs of the capital Damascus.

According to Press TV quoting Syrian media on Wednesday, people from al-Rahiba, Nasiriyah and al-Athma took to the streets to welcome government troops and security forces into their towns following the terrorists' evacuation.

Some 3,700 terrorists and their families have left the region since Friday under a deal with the Syrian government.

Elsewhere in the region, security forces continue with their operations aimed at purging the towns of Yarmuk and Hajar al-Aswad of the presence of terrorists.

On Tuesday, the Syrian minister in charge for national reconciliation, Ali Haidar, announced that remaining terrorists in southern Damascus will not be offered reconciliation deals by the government.

He added that Syrian military operations will continue in the region until the terrorists are eradicated.

As a result of a deal between the Syrian government and terrorist groups on the withdrawal of militants from the three localities, armed groups and their families have been evacuating Eastern Qalamoun since Saturday, after handing over their weapons and ammunition to the government troops.

On Saturday, Syrian forces established full control over a town northeast of the capital, Damascus, after the terrorists controlling the area agreed to hand it back to the government.  

The withdrawal of Jaish al-Islam terrorists and their families followed that of their fellows earlier this month from the town of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus.

The Syrian army on April 14 declared the liberation of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus, after the last pockets of terrorists from the so-called Jaish al-Islam group and their families left the area.

The terrorists and their relatives were fully evacuated to the terrorist-held city of Jarablus in northern Syria.

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