Syrian authorities announced today that they had dismantled a "terrorist" cell linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah in the Damascus region.
The Interior Ministry said police forces "managed to arrest members of a terrorist cell affiliated with the Hezbollah militia, who were operating in the towns of Sassa and Qanaker in the western Damascus province."
"The members of the cell received training in camps in Lebanon and planned operations on Syrian soil," the statement said, adding that rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles, individual weapons and a large amount of ammunition were seized in the operation.
Hezbollah, which fought alongside the troops of ousted President Bashar al-Assad during more than 13 years of Syria's civil war, controlled areas on the Lebanese-Syrian border at the time.
After the fall of Assad in December, who was overthrown by rebels led by current President Ahmad al-Sharia, supply routes to the pro-Iranian Hezbollah were cut off, and according to authorities, several attempts to smuggle weapons into Lebanon were thwarted.
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