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      <title>Syrian Airforce Begins Dropping Leaflets on Homs, Hula, Rastan and Tabliseh</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:55:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>nutsflipped</dc:creator>
      <description>After successful operations in Qusayr, Syrian Army is now preparing to enter other zombie infested towns in Homs governance.
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      <title> Free Syrian Army Fires Rockets Towarda SAA And Hezbollah In Homs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:52:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>PORK-CHOP</dc:creator>
      <description>FSA Firing Rockets Toward Syrian Traitor Army And Hezbolla Terrorists Bases.</description>
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      <title> Syria _ Homs _ World Ignores Warning, Regime Slaughters Civilians _ May 22, 2013</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:11:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>GENOCIDE BY DIKTATOR ASSAD GOES ON !!!</description>
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      <title>Injured SAA Officer Fighting with 2 Sons Loses One</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:44:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Arabi Souri</dc:creator>
      <description>While 'freedom fighters' dig out graves of people dead over a thousand years ago, take out hearts of soldiers just killed and eat it in front of camera, the Syrian men fight with their families and keep fighting these hyenas even on the same day they lost one of their sons and they're injured, can you see a difference?
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Who can defeat a country her children loves her so much? 
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 Arabi Souri :  http://www.syrianews.cc  
 http://www.youtube.com/user/3arabiSouri 
 https://twitter.com/3arabiSouri  
 http://www.facebook.com/Amazing.Syria 
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      <title>Al-Qusayr Situation Latest Update(Maps from Both Sides)</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:58:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>belisarius</dc:creator>
      <description>/
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Source :
- Above :  https://www.facebook.com/SyrianPerspective  (pro-government)
- Bellow :  http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com  (pro-rebel)

After Al-Qusayr became a hot place, a lot of detailed maps are being uploaded. I share these maps for your reference. 
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Of course, intentionally selected two maps covering same area from both sides. The comparision should be useful for balanced observation.</description>
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      <title>Syria, Al Qusayr: SAA disinfect the Southern districts and enters the Northern</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Syria, Al Qusayr: SAA disinfect the Southern districts and enters the Northern, soon enters Homs fully.
Footage from Al-Alam.</description>
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      <title>Syria - ILF ATGM attack vs SAA T-72 tanks 20-21/05 -2 VIDEOS-</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:10:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Battle of the one body - Islamic Liberation Front ATGM attacks vs SAA T72 tanks
 Mdajn 20-21/05 
Eastern Homs Suburbs

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21/05</description>
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      <title>German Intelligence Sees Assad Regaining Hold</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:02:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>euronymus</dc:creator>
      <description>Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant advances, it predicts.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria.

BND now believes the Syrian military of autocrat Bashar Assad is more stable than it has been in a long time and is capable of undertaking successful operations against rebel units at will. BND head Gerhard Schindler informed select politicians of the agency's new assessment in a secret meeting.

It is a notable about-face. As recently as last summer, Schindler reported to government officials and parliamentarians that he felt the Assad regime would collapse early in 2013. He repeated the view in interviews with the media.

At the time, the BND pointed to the Syrian military's precarious supply situation and large numbers of desertions that included members of the officer core. German intelligence spoke of the &quot;end phase of the regime.&quot;

Since then, however, the situation has changed dramatically, the BND believes. Schindler used graphics and maps to demonstrate that Assad's troops once again possess effective supply lines to ensure sufficient quantities of weapons and other materiel. Fuel supplies for tanks and military aircraft, which had proved troublesome, are once again available, Schindler reported. The new situation allows Assad's troops to combat spontaneous rebel attacks and even retake positions that were previously lost. The BND does not believe that Assad's military is strong enough to defeat the rebels, but it can do enough to improve its position in the current stalemate.

Severing Rebel Supply Lines

The assessment appears to be consistent with recent reports from Syria, where government troops have been able to regain the upper hand in the region stretching from Damascus to Homs, including coastal areas near Homs. Furthermore, fighters loyal to Assad have expelled rebel fighters from several districts on the edge of Damascus and cut off their supply lines to the south. Currently, the regime is in the process of severing rebel supply lines to the west.

Meanwhile, the BND believes that rebel forces, which include several groups of Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida, are facing extreme difficulties. Schindler reported that different rebel groups are fighting with each other to attain supremacy in individual regions. Furthermore, regime troops have managed to cut supply lines for weapons and evacuation routes for wounded fighters. Each new battle weakens the militias further, the BND chief said.

Should the conflict continue as it has in recent weeks, says Schindler, government troops could retake the entire southern half of the country by the end of 2013. That would leave only the north for insurgent fighters, where Kurdish rebels have tight control over their areas.

Lowering Expectations

Schindler's report on the state of the rebel groups allows little room for hope that serious talks between the insurgents and the Assad regime will take place soon. The BND says there is no functional chain of command between opposition leaders abroad and the militias inside of Syria. The fighters on the ground simply don't recognize the political leadership, says the BND.

The United Nations is currently doing all it can to encourage both sides to engage in peace talks in Geneva, though no date has been set. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is once again travelling to the Middle East on Wednesday to plan for such negotiations.

At a meeting of the &quot;Friends of Syria&quot; in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Westerwelle is set to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry among others. But over the weekend, he sought to lower expectations, saying that it isn't clear yet whether the Assad regime is even prepared to engage in talks.

Source:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-intelligence-believes-assad-regime-regaining-lost-power-a-901188.html</description>
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      <title>A brief summary of the situation in Syria for 20 May 2013</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:47:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>A brief summary of the situation in Syria for 20 May 2013
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzTSeXj10Xo 

ANNA News
 http://anna-news.info/ 
 http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna 


 


May 20 Homs

in the province of Homs in the town of Al-Koseyru
continuing terrorist operation
parts and units of the Syrian-Arab Army
against militants of the terrorist organization Al-Nusra.

House to house street by street army troops tighten
encirclement of the bandits, despite their desperate resistance
and attempts to break through. Not withstanding the onslaught, the bandits retreat deep into the city by throwing
munition and property. Because in a house has been detected
seized a large cache of weapons ammunition, as well as with many
Food production in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Perfectly prepared fortifications and trenches bandits
full profile say that their creation was attended
Foreign military experts.
Early in the morning of May 20 at 7 am two suicide bombers blew up two
car packed with explosives in a recently released housing
quarters in the factory for the production of blankets. There are dead and wounded, including
and among the civilian population, the number of confirmed victims of surrounding buildings suffered
enormous material damage.

Del-Zor.
The militants of Al-Nusra continue mortar and rocket attacks on residential areas of cities
and towns of Syria. So intense was subjected to mortar fire
one of the districts of Der Zor. among civilians have killed and wounded, the number of
Affected specified.

ANNA News Agency Marat Musin, Igor Nadyrshin, Andrey Filatov, Viktor Kuznetsov Syria</description>
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      <title>Why Al Quseir, Hezbollah And Whats Really Behind It</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:33:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>I found this article very interesting and just wanted to share.  It help me a little bit to understand why some big powers would go so far and openly (almost) support terrorism to achieve their geopolitical goals.
Text was Google-translated 
Al-Quseir lies on the road between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast.

For the rebels control over al-Quseir is necessary because it serves as a link to the mountainous terrain
in the north of Lebanon, where mercenaries are being moved deep into Syria. Elimination of this base will allow the government army commanders to consider the problem for the release of
militants from the northwestern province of Idlib and Aleppo.

The Israeli press reported that the attention of all the regional intelligence focused on the area between
Baalbek and the Syrian border. This is the &quot;heart and lungs war machine Lebanese Shiite organization,&quot;
&quot;Hezbollah&quot;. 

Worries Israelis are not just noticeable - it is accented!  What does this mean?
Syrian resource
&quot;Al-Haqiqa&gt;&gt; story on the value of the fight for al-Quseir, which brings on
the side of the Syrian army and soldiers of &quot;Hezbollah&quot;.

Al-Haqiqa&gt;&gt; based on the information the British diplomat who until recently worked in Damascus until
the closure of its embassy there.

Al-Quseir is a unique case - the head of &quot;Hezbollah&quot;, Sheikh Nasrallah, openly acknowledged the
participation of its people in this battle for the Syrian city. According to him, it is about
&quot;limited&quot; involvement in order to protect residents in the vicinity of minorities, especially Shiites, whose land and property in the last few months have been confiscated by Sunni Islamist insurgents &quot;Dzhabhat
en-Nusra&quot; and &quot;al-Faruq Brigades.&quot;

But is this the real reason for intervention, &quot;Hezbollah&quot;?
And he said the following:
&quot;Here, on this small area concentrated all the regional and international dimensions of the Syrian conflict.
On the surface,
&quot;Hezbollah&quot; is trying to protect the Shiites. But in reality, there is a real World War IIL, there face to face great powers - not metaphorically, but really.

Sometimes their representatives are invisible, like ghosts, influencing events through satellites and drones, but sometimes they suddenly make themselves known.

For example, in the course of the battle for Baba Amr (village near the city of Homs - SF) stepped in
Russian, giving the regime satellite imagery areas. At the same time, dozens of technical intelligence agents of the French and British special forces led by rebel forces in Homs - the same Baba Amr.

It is through this region in the first year of the war in Syria, especially in the central region, and 60%
of thrown weapons and fighters for the insurgency from abroad.

According to the assessment of Israeli and Western intelligence, this region - the most dangerous and most strategically important in the Middle East - in a confrontation axis of Iran-Syria-Israel axis against Saudi Arabia.

At the disposal of Israel and the U.S. were some of the reports. They estimate that up to 80% of heavy weapons passed the Syrians &quot;Hezbollah&quot;, in particular, rockets, walked along the corridor.  &quot;In other words - this area is a very sensitive point, which allows control of their transfer along this corridor anything - from fighters to missiles.

Therefore, according to the British diplomat, the attention of all the regional intelligence focused on the
region between the Lebanese and Syrian border Baalbek. It was here that are warehouses and bases &quot;Hezbollah&quot;.

Now all is clear, writes the &quot;Al-Haqiqa&gt;&gt;, that the Sunni insurgents and the southern border with Syria, Jordan, and on the demarcation of the ceasefire line work closely with Israeli intelligence . What
for? She conducts them in terms of grazing with the Shia &quot;Hezbollah.&quot; This is evidenced by the statement of one of the commanders of &quot;Free Syrian Army&quot; Khalid al-Habous. When he was last year proclaimed the &quot;Battle of Liberation&quot;, the aim of which was to prevent the supply of arms Syria, &quot;Hezbollah&quot;.

And that's why now &quot;Hezbollah&quot; without any hesitation was ready to take part in cleaning
it from hostile armed groups and the province itself and Homs, in particular, the areas adjacent to the Lebanese border.
But it is - &quot;atruth&quot; by a British citizen.
On the other hand, it looks different: it is about al-Quseir, as a strategic point linking the Syrian authorities with their union, &quot;Hezbollah&quot;.

Control, which at one time set militants jihadists in the region, meant separation from Damascus, the
Lebanese territory in the area of </description>
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      <title>Turning Point: Battle for Al-Qusayr</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:15:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>flashpointreport</dc:creator>
      <description>
Source:  http://syriareport.net/turning-point-battle-for-al-qusayr/ Following the securing of villages surrounding the key city of Al-Qusayr in Homs province, Syrian aircraft dropped flyers over the city on May 10th. The flyers informed civilians in the besieged town of a corridor to the North through which they were urged to evacuate pending an imminent offensive to uproot embedded militants. Observers were expecting a speedy offensive, but due to a lull in civilian evacuation, the assault was postponed  on or around May 14th. Recently,  reports suggest  civilians who later tried to leave, were forced to stay, utilised as a human shield by divided, arguing militant factions.
Why is Al-Qusayr  important?Al-Qusayr is a small city with a population of between 30,000 and 50,000 about 9 km from the northeastern border of Lebanon. It is also 22 km southwest of Homs.  Due to it's proximity to Lebanon, Al-Qusayr is an attractive position for militant groups trafficking arms and personnel. Al-Qusayr is a strategic link between Damascus, the coast, and Homs, Hama and Aleppo to the north. Since March, the Syrian army has been on the offensive, securing key areas in Aleppo,  Damascus countryside ,  Dara'a  and Homs. The primary objective of these pinpoint operations is the disruption and eliminating of supply lines from neighbouring countries, a lifeline enabling militant groups to continue their attrition against Syrian army installations such as airbases. In Rif Dimashq (Damascus countryside) specifically, militant organisations intensified attempts to disrupt life in Damascus with regular mortar and rocket attacks, and occasional car bombs.

Following a stunning deployment of artillery and airpower on May 19th, Syrian forces and it's allied guerrilla detachments of the National Defence Forces (NDF) and Hezbollah stormed Al-Qusayr. Within the first day, the centre of the  city was secured following the witnessing of the church having been destroyed by militants - Al-Qusayr has a significant Christian population.




According to our source, the greatest challenge for Syrian troops and it's guerrilla allies, were Chechen militants and entrenched, well trained snipers.

Underlining the logistical and strategic importance of the city, insurgents were reported to be well armed and consistently firing hundreds of rounds a minute while deploying mortars and rocket propelled grenades. During the day, 20th May, the Syrian army were reported to have control over 60% of the city. Since then, their advance has been reported as slow, but significant as the role of aircraft and armoured units became more limited, presenting infantry with the objective of fighting in a heavily built-up area.

Significantly, the Syrian command left the Northern gateway out of the city wide open. Initially, this was the corridor for civilians who were urged to evacuate in the days and weeks before the assault. Little is known about the motive for such a decision, but it is highly likely that this is in order to draw adversaries into open ground to allow for accurate targeting and eventual defeat of armed militants who will have expended supplies during their encirclement. Indeed, a split between two groups emerged following the near total encirclement of the city - those who wanted to fight to the death and those who wanted to evacuate the city in anticipation of a saturating Syrian army assault on the city.

As of today, the situation remains slow but steady. The various army brigades involved in the multi-directional assault on the city are converging in the south of the city, readying for an assault on the west. The battle is not over and what will become of the remaining adversaries in the northern corridor of the city remains to be seen.

After the Battle of Al-QusayrA map posted by  Syrian Perspective 's source, which sheds light on Syrian army strategy. As noted, Al-Qusayr's surrounding areas were subject to a build-up and eventual encirclement of Syrian troops and allies. Northwest of the city, the villages of Al-Hamidiyah and Al-Haydariya were secured - completing a chain around insurgent positions and entrenchments. It is expected that militant groups will be fully encircled, sieged and eliminated in order to secure Homs governate (province) in it's entirety.

The army's strategy of securing important cities, towns and other populated centres while placing less emphasis on isolated rural positions, has paid off.  It is possible that the army and it's allies will fully secure the west of the country and move west in an effort to confront Al-Qaeda and other factions which are particularly active in that region.

Take note of surrounding positions of Hama city, including Talbiseh and Rastan.

From predictions of Syrian army collapse to increasing victories on the groundReports of new counter-insurgency strategies in early 2013 appears to have paid off, with a clear increase in morale for Syrian troops. Reports from Damascus indicate an increasingly confident administration. More recently, Russia's transfer of advanced P-800 Oniks/Yakhonts anti-ship missiles underline Moscow's position on the conflict - one which is against foreign intervention.

  Yakhonts anti-ship missile with a range of up to 300 km. Syria's possession of upgraded missiles will reportedly thwart plans for a naval blockade and no-fly zone

A marked re-calibration in Syrian army methodology can be traced back to the latter weeks of 2012, where reports of &quot;opposition victories&quot; were attributed to the overrunning and capture of insignificant, isolated Syrian army positions and installations. In fact, reports suggest that military strategists have decided against the defence of strategically unimportant outposts, in favour of an operational consolidation of manpower and equipment in order to pursue direct confrontation with militant organisations.

Consideration of the Syrian army's historically based Soviet military doctrine from the years of President Hafez al-Assad and the close relationship between the Soviet Union and recently Russia is important. Russian lessons of a costly war in Chechnya and the resulting defeat of Jihadist militants groups are key to gaining more understanding of Syrian rationale in dealing with entrenched and oftentimes elusive militant groups. Additionally, the Soviet era military hardware has had many opportunities to present it's defects as well as advantages.

  The Syrian Air Force inventory includes aging but reliable Sukhoi combat jets.

The Syrian army, ill-prepared for an asymmetrical, foreign equipped and funded militant onslaught, has proved remarkably resilient. Despite crucial military hardware being of age, the reliable nature of vehicles and aircraft coupled with well trained personnel has enabled the Syrian armed forces to turn strategy into success. Indeed, the Western media narrative has  performed a stunning u-turn  of army having it's days numbered, having it's back broken with defections and close to collapse. Absent from the reporting of Western media outlets, often quoting alleged experts, is accurate reports of the Syrian army's doctrinal order of battle - living up to the reputation of one of the best trained and equipped army's in the region.

Worth considering also, is the army's breaking of two much reported sieges of Wadi al-Deif and Hamidiya outside Maarat al-Numan in mid-April. Airdrops to the installations were naturally discontinued, allowing greater employment of airpower to other important flashpoints.

President Hafez al-Assad's emphasis on the maintenance of a well disciplined and competent military have survived. Calibrated with Russian lessons of the Chechnya conflict and Hezbollah's combat experience, effectiveness and asymmetrical tactics, the Syrian army is living up to it's reputation as a logistically and cohesive force.




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Today, terrorist groups from Haraszti, and the Duma tried to unlock the army surrounded the area Barzov militias. On army checkpoints were attacked with car bombs.
The explosions took place near a police hospital, located on the main highway leading to Damascus from the northern parts of the country and the outside of the building control system, water supply, located just south. As a result of the ensuing fire burned down the building. There are dead and wounded, including not only military but also civilians.

Another car filled with 1 ton of explosives, has not reached its goal of being undermined by the military.

In the wake of the bombings strike up clashes had destroyed many attackers.

In Haraszti also was eliminated a group of militants led by warlord, a Saudi national named Abu Muzhahed and the bus with the terrorists, to break the aid of his accomplices.

On a section of motorway Mujahideen was blown armored personnel of the security forces.

Building of the police hospital was shelled with mortars by militants, leaving one person dead, several injured.

The area also Barzov of fierce clashes in which dozens of terrorists were liquidated &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot;, including the leader of one of the factions entrenched there, a Kuwaiti national who bore the nickname Abu Muaz. Were offset by a few snipers and destroyed stores of weapons and ammunition. Fights also captured district plantations Barzov, Haraszti and neighborhood Kabuna and Tishreen quarter.

In Kabune clash occurred at one of the army checkpoint, where they were eliminated, all participating in the attack on him by terrorists.
In the industrial area Kabuna Air Force planes were destroyed militant hideouts, and after the air attack Syrian artillery inflicted a series of precision strikes against concentrations of terrorists in Dzhobare and territories between him and Kabunom.

In the province of Damascus clashes with terrorist groups took place in Al-Hudzheyre, An-Nebek, Deir Atye and plantations around the city Duma.

In the Damascus suburb kiswa exploded a car bomb, a number of civilians were injured.

As a result of a mortar attack by militants campus garment factories, located in the village of Mleha, three workers were killed, 23 were wounded. Some of the injured are in critical condition.

In Adre location of the 39th regiment of the Syrian army was attacked by gangs of terrorists, an attempted from two sides.

Under the main entrance on the territory of the military rebels had dug a tunnel in which they were placed containers of TNT, the blast that killed five soldiers, two were injured. Following the explosion of militant groups have attempted to enter the territory of the regime of the object, which ended in failure. A lot of members of the gangs were killed and wounded, and the rest fled.

It should be noted that this sortie - not the first. The day before yesterday the terrorists drove a stolen tank military base to the fence and fired five shots that killed one officer, five privates were wounded. Strike up after this attack, fight lasted 6:00. It resulted in an escape group that has left the battlefield in many dead and wounded. Spurred failure and forced to retreat militants fired several mortar shells at a military unit that resulted in property damage.

The situation remains tense as in the Khan Sheikh, where terrorists Free Syrian Army was kidnapped one of the elders and respected people in the village, and his son was injured by them. In response, the militias arrested a number of troops belonging to the Free Syrian Army fighters, which caused further deterioration of the situation: armed groups fired on residential areas of the village of mortars. According to some reports, among civilians wounded there.

In the province of Homs in Al Kseyr operations continue to sweep the city blocks from the armed groups. At present, the main forces of the surviving terrorists have accumulated in its northern part, where they had previously captured airfield Ad-dub, through which they hope to escape from the environment.

In today's fighting Syrian military was destroyed Lebanese militant group, owned by the flow, &quot;Al-Mustaqbal&quot;, led by Saad al-Hariri and the terrorist squad, consisting of 20 members, led by warlord Vrtana Al Zhuri of &quot;An-Nusra Dzhebhat.&quot;

On the border with Lebanon today was again detected and eliminated a group of militants who had tried to break the line and get into the city for assistance to terrorists, who are in the &quot;pot.&quot;

In the city of Ar-Rastan in the counter-terrorist operation Syrian army destroyed militant hideouts, their cache of weapons and ammunition, the 23-mm anti-aircraft gun, cars with high-caliber machine gun and a workshop for the production of IEDs.

On the east of the province boestolknovniya that resulted in the neutralization of dozens of members of the armed groups and their cars with a large-caliber machine gun, occurred between Hussein and Ain Tel Al-Gar, and between the villages and Bveyr Sacra.

In the city of Homs in the quarters of the old city of Hai Al-Varsha, Hai Al Vaara and Karabis congestion terrorists were killed, they owned cars and a workshop for the manufacture of IEDs, 10 militants were captured alive.

In the province of Idleb as a result of an army division counter-terrorism operations have been released three people who were abducted by an armed group &quot;Dzhebhat en-Nusra.&quot; One of them - the officer of the Syrian army. All three were released were sent to Aleppo, and then went home.

In the vicinity of a military objective Muaskar Al-Shabib today were defused three IEDs remotely operated weighing 100 kg each and two anti-personnel mines.

Accumulations of militants were eliminated near the settlement Sernin, destroyed tank belonging to terrorists, infantry fighting vehicle and storage of arms and ammunition.

2 field camp members of armed groups were found in the vicinity of Tel Salma and the military airport of Abu Duhur. Among the dozens of militants killed - five snipers.

The grouping of militants &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot;, numbering about 1,000, the siege continues military base Muaskar Al-Shabib. Clashes, during which the Syrian army uses against the heavily armed terrorist groups artillery and aircraft, are still going on.

In the province of Aleppo rebels were again fired from mortars and villages Nubbul Zahra civilian has been injured, injury was a child.

The area was subjected to a military airfield Minneh mortar and rocket attacks by terrorists as a result of which the site was divided helicopter. After the shelling began a fierce clash that continues to this day.

In the south of the province of Aleppo prevented an armed group attempted to infiltrate the village Sheikh Saeed. The attackers were killed and dozens injured. One soldier was wounded. Captured belonged to gangs fighting vehicle.

In the city of Aleppo, the army had progressed deeper into the quarter Dahr Abed Rabbo, the Al-Leramon.

Clashes continue also in the vicinity of the district of Castello.

Artillery bombed clusters of terrorists and their hideouts in the areas of Bustan al-Basha, Sheikh Maqsood and on the road in the town of Al-Bab.

In the Al-Marja was eliminated a group of militants, among whom was a citizen of Sudan.

In Raqqa around the locations of the 17th Division of the Syrian army artillery strikes were subjected to field camps of terrorists &quot;Dzhebhat en-Nusra&quot; and Free Syrian Army, they owned vehicles with a heavy machine gun and military equipment.

In Day-ez-Zor army units have made progress deeper into the district Hai Al-Sinai, where they were based terrorist groups. Boestolknovniya occurred also in other areas of the city.

The group of students Meyadin village that tried to get in Deir ez-Zor for the exams at the end of compulsory certificates in Syria 9-year course, was beaten by the armed terrorist squad that led the children to return home. However, they broke and threw on their exam ID.

In the province of Latakia clashes with army units militant gangs &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot; occurred in Jabal Al-Turkman, Rabia, Toros, Beit-Malaki, Al-Najah Ara Wadi Azraq. Destroyed many members of gangs, their weapons and ammunition.

In the province of Hama completes sweep of terrorist groups Halfa population, in which the sappers neutralized the road and some of the buildings of the village, mined terrorists. The surviving militants are trying to run in the neighborhood of the village. The process of returning civilians Halfa will begin May 22.

Dozens of terrorists &quot;Dzhebhat An-Nusra&quot; killed in the Syrian army counter-terrorist operation in the village of Busra al-Harir province of Daraa.

In areas of the old town of Daraa and in the villages of Al-Shazhara, Al Shabrak, sachem, Dzhulyan al-Shaykh al-Miskin and Huvar also saw heavy fighting, during which the members of the groups have been neutralized by the organization.

Attempts to help brooked defeat the militants do not stop by extremist forces in the territory of Jordan. So, today was again foiled an attempt to penetrate into Syria group of armed terrorists, most of them in the course of a knotted clashes were killed.</description>
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