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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Syria govt forces battle rebels near regime bastion: monitor Yahoo... Beirut (AFP) - Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters on Sunday pressed a counteroffensive against rebels near President Bashar al-Assad's coastal heartland, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 fighters have been killed in three days of intense clashes in the Sahl al-Ghab region of central Hama province. The area borders the Latakia province, a bastion of support for Assad and home to his ancestral village. A rebel alliance including Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, launched an offensive late Monday against Sahl al-Ghab, in a push threatening a string of pro-regime Alawite villages. The rebel alliance, Army of Conquest, seized more than a dozen strategic hilltops and other positions, including a power plant, before being pushed out by pro-government forces, said the Observatory. "In the past three days, the army has been able to take back nearly 50 percent of the areas it had lost," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based monitor. The 72 hours of clashes killed at least 73 rebels and 42 regime forces, including Hezbollah fighters and members of the National Defence Forces militia allied with the government, he told AFP. On Sunday, regime aircraft conducted air raids on rebel positions while on the ground the two sides traded heavy rocker fire and mortar rounds, Abdel Rahman said. Sahl al-Ghab also borders the province of Idlib to the northwest, a vast majority of which is under the control of the Army of Conquest. The Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, is the faith to which Assad adheres. Poster Comment: méndez ... This Syrian so called civil war--actually a blatant military aggression by the zombie empires of the West and the XV century caliphates of the Gulf against the Syrian people-- is what best shows the fanaticism, the shortsightedness and stupidity of the neocon gang who has taken the reigns of power in Washington. There is no other force in Syria which could be closer to the so called Western values than the present secular regime of Assad. Yet these lunatics have been doing for the last 4 years all then can to destroy this last line of defense against Muslim barbarism and brutality. One may even come to suspect that the neocons are actually closer, spiritually and politically, to these cannibalistic barbarians--Al Qaeda, ISIS--than to Western values and that is the true reason why they want to destroy this last bastion of defense.8-5 richardd... To attack Iran Israel must neutralize Hezbollah,... to neutralize Hezbollah Israel must neutralize Syria,... to neutralize Syria Israel must distract Russia,... to attack Iran Israel must involve the United States in all of the above. Just connect the dots. 11-4 jim... The war will be over soon America is in a 14 year stalemate with the Middle East and now they plan on attacking Russia and China if Hitler were alive today he would die laughing at America the US will have one advantage the Chinese army will be laughing so hard they wont be able to shoot and with all the women in the army China wont know if they want to shoot them or screw them.7-3 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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