yrian troops on Tuesday captured the village of Qara in the - TopicsExpress



          

yrian troops on Tuesday captured the village of Qara in the mountainous Qalamoun region along a strategic supply route between Damascus and Homs, a military source told AFP. The reported capture came after days of air strikes on the region near the Lebanese border, which is also a key smuggling route for rebels battling to oust Syrian President Bashar aAssad. After three days of fighting, the Syrian army has taken full control of Qara, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the capital, the Syrian military source said, adding that a large number of terrorists had been killed, referring to the rebels. The fighting in Qara sent at least 1,700 people streaming across the border into Lebanon, which is already hosting more than 800,000 Syrian refugees and has suffered from rising unrest linked to the Syrian conflict next door. On Tuesday a double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut and claimed by Sunni Muslim jihadists ripped through a Shiite neighbourhood. The Syrian civil war has claimed an estimated 120,000 lives and generated the biggest refugee crisis in two decades, raising fears that the conflict could spill over into volatile neighbouring states like Lebanon and Iraq.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:35:20 +0000

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