Syrian government forces backed by fighters
from Lebanon 's Hezbollah entered the town
of Zabadani on Sunday in a bid to take the
last rebel -held bastion along the Lebanese
boreder.
Elsewhere at least 30 people including six
civilians were killed in some of the heaviest
US ed air strikes yet on the Islamic State IS
group in Syria.
And the jihadist group carried out a double car
bomb attack that killed 11 people in northwestern
Hasakeh city,where regime forces have been
fighting to fend off an IS assault.
Syrian state television and Hezbollah's Al-Manar
station announced the advance into Zabadani on
Sunday ,a day after a major operation against it
began,
"Heroic army forces in cooperation with the
Lebanese resistance took control of the Al-Jamaiyat
neighbourhood in western Zabadani and the Al-Sultana
neighbourhood in the east of the city "state
television said,
"Operations are continuing with dozens of
terrorists killed and wounded" The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said regime
forces and Hezbollah had entered Zabadani
and intense clashes were underway in the
east and west.,
Army helecopers dropped at least 32 barrel
bombs on the town and were also shelling it
heavily said the Britain based monitoring
group.,
At least 14 pro-government and Hezbollah
fighters had been killed in the past 24 hours
along at least 12 rebels and a civilian it added.
The official Sana news agency said it had
killed "dozens terrorists " a term the regime
uses to describe its armed opponents Zabadani
was one of the first towns to fall into rebel hands
in early 2012 and is now the oppositions only
remaining stronghold along the Lebanese border
AFP
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