Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters have besieged Qusayr which controls vital supply routes from Lebanon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSyria’s state TV reported today that southwest city of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, which has been under siege for more than two weeks, is now in hands of government forces.<\/span><\/p>\n“Our heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town of Qusayr,” a statement carried by the station said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\nArmed terrorist also confirmed they had pulled out of Qusayr.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to Lebanese Almayadin satellite channel, Syrian army conducted an over night raid against terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\nDuring last two weeks, Syrian army was fighting against the terrorist in border city of Qusayr with support of Lebanese Hezbollah forces.<\/span><\/p>\nOne Hezbollah fighter told the Reuters news agency that they took the town in a rapid overnight offensive, allowing some of the fighters to flee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “We did a sudden surprise attack in the early hours and\u00a0entered the town. They escaped,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\nRecapturing of Qusayr means retaining control of important province of Homs and cutting the weapon supplying route of terrorist through Syria- Lebanon border.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African affairs congratulates Syrian people for regaining full control of strategic Qusayr by Syrian army.<\/p>\n
“Some parties that are supporting terrorists and supplying them with weapons are responsible for slaughter of Syrian people and destroying their land,” he said in an interview with Iranian Fars news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[113,53,535,550,271,546,132],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/iransview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/syrian-army.jpg?fit=650%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ogT0-ea","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}