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    Assyrian International News Agency AINA
    June 15 2014

    Syrian Regime Forces Push Into Town on Turkish Border

    Posted 2014-06-15 17:44 GMT


    Syrian regime forces have pushed into Kasab, a village on the border
    with Turkey, a monitoring group and state media said.

    The withdrawal of most rebel forces from the village - including some
    linked to al Qaeda - is another blow to an opposition that has been
    undermined by recent gains by Assad's forces and by infighting.

    A number of fighters stayed behind in Kasab after the departure of
    most of the rebels, who included fighters from the al Qaeda-linked
    Nusra Front, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
    said late on Saturday.

    On Sunday morning, Syrian state television said government forces had
    "restored stability and security" to Kasab and engineering teams were
    removing mines and explosives planted by "terrorist gangs," the
    government's customary term for rebels.

    The Observatory said clashes in the area continued from around
    midnight on Saturday night, but did not give casualty figures.

    Syrian regime forces were assisted by the Lebanese Shi'ite militia
    Hezbollah as well as fighters of Syrian and foreign nationality, the
    Observatory said.

    Rebel forces had taken Kasab, a majority Armenian Christian village,
    in March, the first time they were able to capture a settlement on the
    Mediterranean coast. One of Assad's cousins, a militia commander, was
    killed in fighting in the area.


    http://www.aina.org/news/20140615124453.htm

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