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Syrian troops take full control of town near strategic highway
May 13, 2013 - 13:59 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An activist group says Syrian troops have taken full
control of a town near a highway linking the capital Damascus with the
Jordanian border, a new advance in its campaign to drive rebels from
the country's south, according to The Associated Press.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, said Monday, May 13, that government forces retook all
off Khirbet Ghazaleh on Sunday, after days of heavy fighting. He says
rebel fighters withdrew.
Syrian state TV had reported late last week that troops secured the
highway between Damascus and the southern town of Daraa, near the
Jordanian border. Abdul-Rahman says the highway only reopened Sunday,
after troops took full control of the area.
The capture of Khirbet Ghazaleh is one of several recent battlefield
gains by the regime of President Bashar Assad.
May 13, 2013 - 13:59 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An activist group says Syrian troops have taken full
control of a town near a highway linking the capital Damascus with the
Jordanian border, a new advance in its campaign to drive rebels from
the country's south, according to The Associated Press.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, said Monday, May 13, that government forces retook all
off Khirbet Ghazaleh on Sunday, after days of heavy fighting. He says
rebel fighters withdrew.
Syrian state TV had reported late last week that troops secured the
highway between Damascus and the southern town of Daraa, near the
Jordanian border. Abdul-Rahman says the highway only reopened Sunday,
after troops took full control of the area.
The capture of Khirbet Ghazaleh is one of several recent battlefield
gains by the regime of President Bashar Assad.