Damascus: Over 1,100 Militants Receive Amnesty, 2,350 Popular Forces Join Syrian Army

Colonel Nazal Ismail Mohsen, a senior army official in al-Zabadani, said on Thursday that 1,134 militants have surrendered their light weapons to the Syrian government and received amnesty, adding that 2,354 people of the region have also joined the Syrian army.

He also stated that over 2,000 families have returned to their homes in al-Zabadani, predicting that 2,000 other families will return to the region this summer.

The Syrian army and popular forces seized the city of Zabadani on September 1, 2015.

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces later completed the task with their mop-up operations in the city.

“The resistance forces have purged terrorists from Zabadani in a two-day operation,” an informed source told FNA on September 9, 2015.

The sources revealed that the terrorists had dug tunnels underneath the buildings in Zabadani to get to other parts of the city.