Al-Assad Performs Eid Prayers near Liberated Daesh Pocket
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed prayers on Friday for Islam's Eid al-Adha festival in the town of Qara, near an enclave surrendered on Monday by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] terrorists.
The departure of Daesh and other groups from the Western Qalamoun district means the border with Lebanon is Syria's first to be controlled entirely by its army since early in the conflict.
Daesh terrorists who evacuated the district remained stuck in a convoy on Friday, two days after US-led coalition used air strikes to block it from crossing into their main territory in eastern Syria.
Qara is only a few miles from the pale, dry mountains delineating the frontier with Lebanon, straddling which Daesh and other terrorist groups held territory until August.
Daesh terrorists in the border pocket accepted a truce and evacuation deal after simultaneous but separate offensives by the Lebanese army on one front and the Syrian army and Hezbollah on the other.
Part of an agreed exchange went ahead on Thursday as wounded Daesh militants were swapped for bodies of pro-government forces.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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