Syria Retakes Airbase Following Rebel Advance

Syrian opposition activists say the government has retaken full control of an airbase in the south that had been seized days earlier by a Western-backed rebel group. Southern Front Alliance fighters fled the Al-Thalaa airbase in Sweida province Friday following heavy bombardment by government forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based group did not provide a casualty figure, but the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said at least 100 of what it...

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