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Syrian rebels claimed to have captured an army artillery base in the eastern oil producing province of Deir al-Zour on Thursday, a monitoring group said, weakening by that President Bashar al-Assad’s control of the strategic region bordering Iraq.
“The area east of the city of Deir al-Zour, on the Iraqi border, is now the largest area in the whole country that is out of army control,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman to AFP.
Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have threatened to march on the capital, Kinshasa, after capturing the eastern city of Goma.
The M23 rebel commander told a crowd in Goma they were ready to topple President Joseph Kabila.
The rebels have also taken a small town near Goma, which is on the road to the region’s other main city, Bukavu.
Egypt has announced cease-fire between Israel and Hamas since 21 local time, 20 in Italy. The announce has taken place during a press conference in Cairo in which has participated Hillary Clinton.
An army unit clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Huseinyeh in Saida Zeinab area in Damascus Countryside and killed all of its members.
An official source told SANA reporter that leader of the group, terrorist Mohammad al-Batal, was identified among the dead.
The source said that a DShK-equipped vehicle was destroyed and weapons and ammunition were seized.
While political leaders struggled to conclude a truce deal in Cairo, medics said four Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night, bringing the day’s death toll to 27.
Two brothers — Abed Abu Mour, 24, and Khalid Abu Mour, 19, — were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Juneina district of Rafah.
An earlier airstrike killed another two brothers in Deir al-Balah, medics said. They were identified as Salim Ayish Abu Sitta and his brother Muhammad.
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have entered the main city of Goma in the mineral-rich east of the country, according to a reporter on the scene.
A column of rebel fighters entered the city from the main airport road on Tuesday, sweeping past government troops, and moved toward the centre.
The development marks an escalation in the fighting, which erupted last week after a four-month lull and which has raised fears of a wider conflict engulfing the volatile region.
Rwanda accused U.N.-backed Congolese forces of shelling its territory during a battle with rebels near the border on Monday but said it had no plans to respond militarily to what it called Kinshasa’s “provocation”.
Tension between the central African neighbors has stretched to the breaking point over an insurgency in Congo’s eastern hills that Kinshasa’s government says is orchestrated by Rwanda with designs on the region’s mineral riches.
“Rwanda does not intend to respond to provocation coming from the DRC,” Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo told Reuters. “Issues in (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) are too serious to be subjected to game playing.”