Syrian army forces along with fighters belonging to the Lebanese Islamic resistance movement, Hezbollah, are preparing for a battle to gain full control of the eastern Lebanon mountain range and to purge the strategic area of ISIL terrorists.
According to the Beirut-based English-language newspaper Daily Star quoting security sources, the military arrangements for the battle for the eastern mountain range near the border with Syria have almost finished.
The sources said that the Syrian army has brought a number of rocket launchers, artillery batteries and cannons and has deployed them in strategic areas and hills in the Syrian town of Zabadani, close to the border with Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah is also to mobilize its fighters for an offensive against ISIL terrorists and Al Nusra Front in Syria’s Qalamoun region.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the violence fueled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 222,000 people
