Authorities with locals arrest 17 terrorists in Sweida countryside

Sweida, SANA –Authorities arrested, in cooperation with locals, members of an armed terrorist group in a thicket in the southeastern countryside of Sweida southern province Wednesday.

A source at the governorate told SANA that initial investigations showed that the terrorists -17 in number- were heading to the east of the Province where terrorist organization of “the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” ISIS members spread, pointing out the continuation of investigations.

The source added that the awareness of the Sweida locals has basically the biggest role in arresting the terrorists as they observed the terrorists’ suspicious movements in the thicket.
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