According to Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the detection of the tunnel came after the Kurdish fighters liberated Tal Abyad from the grip of the ISIL terrorists.
Hundreds of Takfiri militants are said to have used the tunnel to cross into Syria and wreak havoc on the Arab country.
Latest reports suggested that thousands of foreign militants had joined ISIL ranks via Turkey.
The retaking of Tal Abyad has effectively cut off ISIL’s supply lines into the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Ezadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian Army, Hezbollah Win Back 5 Hilltops in Qalamoun
The joint forces took control of Shoba al-Bakareh, Shoba Salaja al-Barkan, Qarna Shoba al-Shekara, Shoba Beit Shakour and Zalil al-Haj Ali hilltops.
The Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters inflicted major losses on the ISIL terrorists, killing tens of them and injuring dozens more.
On Sunday, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement started its first phase of military operations against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Al-Qalamoun after purging Al-Nusra Front terrorists from the mountainous region along the Syria-Lebanon border in the last several weeks.
The Hezbollah operations cover areas from al-Qasir region to the hilltops of al-Aqua, Ras Ba’albak and al-Jreijeer in Al-Qalamoun.
The Hezbollah fighters are using new tactics in their operations against the ISIL in Al-Qalamoun, including use of reconnaissance and missile-launching drones.
Hezbollah’s drones are due to find the precise location of ISIL hideouts in the region and then target them.
Last Tuesday, Hezbollah alongside the Syrian Army stormed the positions of al-Nusra terrorists in the nearby areas of Jreijeer and took control over this strategic spot.
The military sources said that the terrorists’ concentration center in Jreijeer was their last stronghold in al-Qalamoun.
Earlier this month, Hezbollah Deputy Leader Sheikh Naeem Qassem underlined that the Lebanese resistance movement will continue fighting against the Takfiri terrorists in Arsal border region.
“We will continue our battle in Arsal hilltops until uprooting the last terrorist in that region, but (protecting) the security of the city of Arsal is the duty of the Lebanese government that needs to be fulfilled,” the Lebanese Elnashra news website quoted Sheikh Qassem as saying.
The Lebanese deputy chief, meantime, pointed to the regional crises created by the West, and said, “The western countries are good at creating crises, but they are unsuccessful when it comes to ending them.”
Tens of Christian Iraqis Return to Mosul from Turkey to Fight ISIL
“180 Iraqi Christians are now back in Iraq to help the popular forces in their fight against the ISIL and defend the city of Mosul,” al-Qad Press news website quoted al-Kaldani as saying on Tuesday.
He underlined that most of the fighters of the Babylon Battalion are also present in some regions of Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.
The Christians are planning for a major battle against the ISIL in Mosul.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Ezadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.
Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Begins Fresh Operations to Win Back Aleppo’s Strategic Districts
The army units plan to take back al-Yarmoun and Bani Zeid districts of Aleppo city from ISIL control.
Also in the past 24 hours, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria took back the army’s strategic headquarters in Northern Syria from the Takfiri terrorists on Monday.
The Kurdish forces seized back the army’s Division 93 Base in Reqqa province from the ISIL militants.
Another army base located in the Southern parts of Tal Abyad was also seized back few days ago from the ISIL terrorists.
Meantime, Syria’s opposition sources announced that a number of ranking Syrian officers who have defected the army are on a clandestine visit to Moscow to hold talks with Russian officials.
Several former high-ranking Syrian army officers who have now joined the opposition travelled to Moscow on Sunday to meet senior officials of the Russian foreign and defense ministries, the opposition-run Sham Press news website reported on Monday.
The Syrian opposition delegation, headed by Fahd al-Masri, the coordinator of the so-called National Salvation Group in Syria, is comprised of defected officers of the Syrian army, intelligence body and the presidential guards.
Elsewhere, the Druzi youth in Syria’s Golan Heights stood up to the Israeli forces and blocked the road to the Israeli army ambulances carrying the terrorists injured in battles in Syria for treatment in Israel.
The Israeli ambulances were passing through the Golan Heights when they came under attack in Druzi-populated town of Harfish in al-Jalil.
A group of Druzi youth hurled stones at the Israeli ambulances when they found out that they were packed with wounded terrorists.
On Sunday, sources disclosed that the terrorists who have sustained injuries during the heavy fighting over a strategic town in Quneitra are taken to Israel for treatment.
“An Israeli army unit transferred the terrorists who were wounded in today’s clashes in the surrounding areas of the town of Hazar to the occupied territories for treatment,” local sources told FNA.
The Israeli army took the wounded militants to the field hospitals in the Occupied Golan Heights set up by the Israelis.
Meantime, the Syrian forces seized full control of a strategic town in Homs after they flushed the ISIL terrorists out of the Western province.
A senior Syrian military source, speaking on condition anonymity, said that the country’s Tiger Forces made huge gains in their military campaign against the ISIL in Homs province and succeeded in recapturing Jazal Gas Fields and the town of Jazal from the Takfiri group.
The army troops plan to liberate an approach road to Palmyra in the second phase of their operation in an attempt to prepare the ground for Palmyra liberation.
The ISIL terrorists recently overran Palmyra in central Homs in an attempt to take full control of the ancient city, but were pushed back by the Syrian troops.
Also, a human rights watchdog said that militants of the ISIL Takfiri group planted explosives and mines in the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra in Central Syria.
Palmyra, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains monumental ruins of an ancient Roman city that was one of the most important cultural centers of the antique world, the Sputnik reported.
Palmyra was seized on May 20 by the ISIL, following a week of fighting. The Syrian government forces withdrew from Palmyra to avoid the destruction of the historic part of the city. A majority of Palmyra’s population was evacuated.
On May 20, the ISIL Takfiri militants control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, also known as Tadmor.
The city is also strategically located at the crossroads of key highways leading West to Damascus and Homs, and East to Iraq.
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