When the 'action' command was heard over the radio, the Mountain Brigade fighters knew that this was the signal to start the vehicles, move towards eastern Damascus, and clear an outpost of the old Syrian regime of weapons that could end up in the wrong hands.

We heard from the command post about the behind-the-scenes of the 5-hour operation deep inside the enemy

In the dead of night, two battalions from the Mountain Brigade (810) set out on one important mission, 38 kilometers deep into Syria. Far beyond the buffer zone, at an abandoned commando post from the days of the Assad regime - east of Damascus.