General Ali Mahyoub, the spokesman for the Syrian armed forces, announces “full victory” against terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta in a televised statement on March 31, 2018. (Photo by SANA)

“Following a series of well-planned battles and combat operations marked with high levels of cooperation and coordination between different types of forces, the armed forces aided by allied forces wrapped up military operations in Damascus countryside’s Eastern Ghouta, with full control established all over its cities and towns,” said a statement by the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces on Saturday.

The victory “dealt a crushing blow to the Wahhabi project against the Syrian land and people,” the statement added. Combat still continues with the so-called Jaish al-Islam Takfiri group in the vicinity of Douma city, the last militant bastion in Eastern Ghouta, as army units secured the exit of tens of thousands of civilians whom the terrorists had used as human shields, the statement said.