Foreign-backed militants in Syria resume peace talks with Russia

Foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists have re-launched peace negotiations with the Russian military in a bid to reach a ceasefire in southwestern Syria as government troops and allied fighters from popular defense groups are making territorial gains there.

“The talks have resumed this morning between the Russian side and the opposition in southern Syria under Jordanian auspices,” Ibrahim al Jabawi, the spokesman for the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) negotiators, said on Sunday.

The development came a day after talks between Russian negotiators and the team representing Takfiri terrorists in the town of Busra al-Sham of the southern province of Dara'a broke down, after the latter demanded a complete surrender and the former refused to hand in heavy arms.

Also on Sunday, Syrian army soldiers raised the national flag over a number of buildings in the town of Dael, located approximately 14 kilometers north of Dara’a, after declaring the area safe and free from terrorists, who had earlier turned themselves in and handed over their munitions.

Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that hundreds of locals gathered in the town’s main square, and praised the sacrifices and heroism of Syrian army troopers in the fight against terrorism.

Syria’s southwest is strategically sensitive because of its proximity to the frontiers with both Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The liberation of Dara’a is highly important because it borders the occupied Golan Heights which Israel has used to treat wounded militants for years.

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