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| Syria rebels advance near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights |
| 2014-09-08 |
| Syrian rebels have made fresh advances near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Quneitra province, where 26 troops and 17 rebels were killed in a battle on Saturday, a monitoring group said. Fighting has raged in the province since August, when rebels and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front took control of a border post. “Rebels have since taken control of hills overlooking the border post, as well as several villages nearby, (after battles that killed) a large number of troops on both sides,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said Sunday. On Saturday, “the regime tried to take back the village of Msahra, but failed”, said Abdel Rahman, with the fighting leaving the 43 dead on both sides. Over the course of Saturday’s fighting, the rebels also seized a string of new hilltops. The Observatory says the fighting around Quneitra has killed some 70 loyalists and dozens of rebels since the end of August. For many months, rebels have sought to take full control of southern Damascus, Daraa province on the Jordan border, and Quneitra. |
| Posted by:Steve White |