The Army Command - Orientation Directorate - issued on Friday the following statement:
"Army units carried out at dawn today, a swift military operation in the desolate area of Arsal, and managed as a result to achieve complete control over some of the sites that were used by terrorist organizations every now and then to infiltrate and attack army posts.
LAF elements stationed at these sites and executed field measures to secure them and connect them to the rest of the region's military posts."