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Assyrian International News Agency AINA
June 14 2014
Syrian Rebels, Jihadists Withdraw From Town Near Turkey
Posted 2014-06-14 21:14 GMT
(AFP) -- Syrian rebels and their allies the jihadist Al-Nusra Front on
Saturday withdrew from Kasab, a strategic village on the border with
Turkey they seized in March, a monitoring group said.
Most fighters from Al-Nusra and the other rebel groups pulled out,
"leaving behind only a small number" of men, said the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.
Troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime sent tanks to
nearby villages, signalling an imminent army advance on the border
town.
The rebels pulled back as regime forces backed by pro-regime fighters,
among them members of the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah,
advanced on the nearby village of Nabaein, the Observatory said.
Activists confirmed the account, adding the rebel fighters and the
Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian Al-Qaeda affiliate, withdrew to rebel
strongholds in the Jabal al-Akrad area.
Kasab, an Armenian town, is strategically important because it is
located near the only border crossing with Turkey in sensitive Latakia
province, the heartland of the Alawite sect from which Assad hails.
When the crossing fell from government hands in March, it was the last
functioning border post with Turkey to slip from army control.
http://www.aina.org/news/20140614161409.htm
From: A. Papazian
June 14 2014
Syrian Rebels, Jihadists Withdraw From Town Near Turkey
Posted 2014-06-14 21:14 GMT
(AFP) -- Syrian rebels and their allies the jihadist Al-Nusra Front on
Saturday withdrew from Kasab, a strategic village on the border with
Turkey they seized in March, a monitoring group said.
Most fighters from Al-Nusra and the other rebel groups pulled out,
"leaving behind only a small number" of men, said the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.
Troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime sent tanks to
nearby villages, signalling an imminent army advance on the border
town.
The rebels pulled back as regime forces backed by pro-regime fighters,
among them members of the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah,
advanced on the nearby village of Nabaein, the Observatory said.
Activists confirmed the account, adding the rebel fighters and the
Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian Al-Qaeda affiliate, withdrew to rebel
strongholds in the Jabal al-Akrad area.
Kasab, an Armenian town, is strategically important because it is
located near the only border crossing with Turkey in sensitive Latakia
province, the heartland of the Alawite sect from which Assad hails.
When the crossing fell from government hands in March, it was the last
functioning border post with Turkey to slip from army control.
http://www.aina.org/news/20140614161409.htm
From: A. Papazian