Syrian Army found stores with weapon produced in USA amounts to millions
Opposition militants, who went out from the eastern districts of Aleppo, left large stores of weapons. According to the representative of the Syrian army, most of it were produced in United States.
"We have discovered warehouses with weapons the estimated cost of which amounts to millions of dollars. Most of it – US-produced," a high-rank Syrian defense source told on Thursday.
The source added that Damascus has indicated several times that the so-called "moderate opposition" in Aleppo had been receiving weaponry supplies from the Turkish territory with the help of funds of Persian Gulf monarchies.
"Moreover, some of the weapons were stolen from Syrian Army warehouses," the source said.
On December 16, the Russian Defense Ministry's center for Syrian reconciliation said that the Syrian army operation to liberate eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo was over, and that Syrian government troops were eliminating separate hotbeds of militant resistance.
Zaid Saleh, the head of Aleppo's security committee, told Sputnik that over 31,000 militants and members of their families had left eastern districts of Aleppo under the agreement with the Syrian government.
Source: alalam.ir
