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| Syria Rebels in Fresh Advance in Northwest |
| 2014-05-27 |
| [An Nahar] Syrian rebels made advances on Monday in the war-torn country's northwest, seizing several army checkpoints as they inched closer towards taking over two major bases, a monitor and activists said. The advance in Idlib province came as al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the al-Nusra Front, grabbed credit for two car kabooms that killed 12 people a day earlier in the central city of Homs. In Idlib, rebels and their jihadist al-Nusra Front allies took over "the Salam checkpoint west of the town of Khan Sheikhun after fierce battles against regime troops", the Syrian Observatory for Human Right said. The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), a network of activists across the country, said the Salam checkpoint was "the last regime position in the Khan Sheikhun area," in the south of Idlib province. Khan Sheikhun "is now completely liberated," the group said. The Observatory meanwhile said opposition fighters have blocked access to the highway linking the south of Idlib province to rebel-held Morek in the north of neighboring Hama province. While rebels have been losing ground in the center of Syria, they have in recent weeks been making steady progress in Idlib and north of Hama. The Observatory meanwhile said the latest advance brings rebels closer to taking over the Wadi Deif and Hamidiyeh army bases in the area, which opposition fighters have besieged for more than a year. Elsewhere, the al-Nusra Front grabbed credit for two car kabooms on Sunday in the central city of Homs that according to the governor killed 12 people. "God generously made it possible for the jihadists of al-Nusra Front in Homs... to break through the strongholds of the regime's shabiha (militia)... despite the many obstacles, security barriers and checkpoints," the jihadist group said on Twitter. The statement said the first boom-mobile was parked in the district of Zahraa, in eastern Homs, and the second in the west of the city. Both suicide boom-mobiles "were detonated at the same time, in order to secure the highest corpse count possible," the turbans said. Homs governor Talal al-Barazi told Agence La Belle France Presse on Monday that the toll from the first car kaboom had risen to 12 dead and 23 maimed, revising an earlier corpse count of 10. The second attack in the west of Homs maimed seven people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Both suicide boom-mobiles "were detonated at the same time, in order to secure the highest corpse count possible," the turbans said. And how many of those corpses were Pencil-neck's hitters and how many were just old people and kids? |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-27 09:49 |