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A bloody two days in Syria has left at least 88 rebels and Syrian Army personnel dead in a battle for control of the country’s southern Daraa province, AFP reports.
British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes between rebels and the Syrian regime that began on Thursday led to the high death toll.
An air strike targeted on Saturday a truck carrying 11 terrorists in al-Hazmieh area, al-Bayda province, killing 10 and wounding a terrorist, a security source of the Supreme Security Committee has announced.
In a statement to Saba, the source pointed out that the committee had received intelligence suggesting 11 terrorists traveling by a truck were heading to al-Bayda city and planning to target vital military and civil sites in the city.
Syrian soldiers backed by Hezbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, on Monday, military sources and state television said, further squeezing rebels’ supply routes through the Qalamoun mountains into Lebanon.
Islamist fighters, some from the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, had taken over part of the ancient Christian town in December and held several nuns captive until releasing them in March in a prisoner exchange deal.
Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, blaming each other for an attack that reportedly injured scores of people.
Details of the attack Friday in Kfar Zeita, a village in Hama province some 200 kilometres north of Damascus, remained sketchy Saturday night.
Shiite rebels believed to be seeking to advance on Yemen’s capital have attacked an army post in a neighbouring city, killing three soldiers and losing two of their own, tribal sources said Thursday.
The Zaidi rebels, also known as Ansarullah or Huthis, carried out the attack in Amran, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Sanaa, late on Wednesday, tribal sources said.