Hezbollah Using Combat UAVs against Daesh Terrorists in Syria
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Hezbollah said it used weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] to strike the positions of the Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] Takfiri terrorists in the strategic and mountainous Syrian region of Qalamoun close to the border with Lebanon.
In further details, Hezbollah's Central War Media announced in a statement on Monday that it had deployed the drones to hit Daesh positions, bunkers and fortifications in the area, located about 330 kilometers north of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Video footage released by the media unit, taken from a drone, showed two types of missiles, one of them with a tail fin, cruising towards the ground and subsequent explosions as they struck the designated targets.
Earlier on Monday, the media center reported that the Lebanese resistance fighters and Syrian government forces had complete control over Shoubat al-Dowab and Shoubat Beit Shuker heights in the western outskirts of Qalamoun.
Additionally, it announced that Hezbollah fighters and Syrian army soldiers were in control of the strategic Qornat Shoubat Aakko district near al-Jarajir village in Syria's southwestern province of Rif Dimashq.
On Saturday, Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an operation to purge Qalamoun from Daesh terrorists.
Hezbollah launched a major push on July 21 to clear both sides of Lebanon's border with Syria of "armed terrorists."
In August 2014, the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Daesh terrorist groups overran Arsal, killing a number of Lebanese forces. They took 30 soldiers hostage, most of whom have been released.
Since then, Hezbollah and the Lebanese military have been defending Lebanon on the country's northeastern frontier against foreign-backed terrorist groups from neighboring Syria.
Hezbollah fighters have fended off several Daesh attacks inside Lebanon. They have also been providing assistance to Syrian army forces to counter the ongoing foreign-sponsored militancy.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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