Israel concerned as the Syrian army retakes more territories from the militants

Tabnak – As the Syrian army manages to retake more and more territories from the rebel and terrorist groups, foreign adversaries of the Syrian government, including Israel, are becoming increasingly concerned over the imminent end of Syrian conflict with Assad’s victory.

In this vein, Israel’s minister for military affairs admits that Syrian ground forces are recovering from the losses they suffered during over seven years of battles against foreign-backed terror groups, saying the Arab state is now building up a formidable army beyond its pre-crisis size.

The Syrian government is not only retaking territory from terrorist groups but also rebuilding its military power, Avigdor Lieberman told reporters during a tour on Tuesday of the Israeli-occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights, where he observed a military exercise.

“Across the way we see the Syrian military, which is not satisfied with just taking over all of Syrian territory but is expressly building a broad-based, new ground army that will return to its previous proportions and beyond,” he said. “Therefore, we follow all developments and we are ready for any scenario,” he added.

Earlier this month, Lieberman stressed that the government of President Bashar al-Assad is regaining control of the Syrian territory and that stability is returning to the occupied Golan Heights.

Backed by its allies, namely Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, the Syrian government has made sizeable gains on several fronts against the terrorist groups, many of which enjoy the support of Israel, the US and their allies.

Meanwhile, in one of the latest developments regarding the Syrian conflict, the Syrian Army's artillery and missile units opened heavy fire at terrorists' movements in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib on Wednesday, destroying their positions and cutting off their supply lines.

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists' positions in the villages and towns of Lahaya, al-Latamina, Kafr Zita and al-Zakat in Northern Hama came under heavy fire of the artillery and missile units.

It’s also reported that the Syrian Air Force bombed heavily a main command post of the ISIS in Badiyeh (desert) of Sweida, killing over 70 terrorists. The warplanes targeted and destroyed a main command post of the ISIS in Sheikh Hassan Qabr region East of Khirbet al-Ambashi in the depth of Badiyeh on Tuesday, killing over 70 terrorists and destroying several vehicles and a large volume of arms and ammunition.

It’s also noteworthy that the recapture of southern areas of Syria from the terrorists would cut Israel’s much-reported contacts with anti-Damascus militants and deal a blow to Tel Aviv’s plans to make the international community recognize its annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, which it seized in 1967.