The terrorist group was trying to enter Syria from the border village of Ba’youn in Talkalakh, Homs countryside, the agency said on Saturday.
The officials added that a number of armed men were gunned down or injured in clashes with Syrian Special Forces with the group on the Syria-Lebanon border.
In addition to the clashes, automatic weapons, explosive devices and other ammunition were seized from the terrorist group, SANA said.
According the agency, Syrian government forces also discovered a warehouse for weapons in the Baba Amr district in the flashpoint city of Homs.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.
The West and the Syrian opposition blame Damascus for the year-long turmoil, but the government says “terrorists” are responsible for the unrest, which it says is being orchestrated from abroad.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on February 20 that “some foreign countries” are fueling the turmoil in Syria by supporting and funding “armed terrorist groups fighting against the government.”
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