Syria Kessab photos and news after liberated

Damascus, June 15, 2014 7:30 p.m. (AFP) – The Syrian army has taken over the city Sunday to Armenian majority Kassab (northwest) and a strategic border crossing with Turkey, nearly three months after they fell into the hands rebels.

“Units of our armed forces, in collaboration with the forces (paramilitary) national defense restored the safety and security Kassab this morning,” the military said in a statement, confirming earlier data by television information State.

State television broadcast images then one of its journalists speaking from the border post. The chain has also accused Qatar and Turkey, supporters of the rebellion, have provided the “terrorists” (the rebels in the language of the plan) ambulances to evacuate their wounded.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) were reported Saturday evening that “most of the fighters of al-Nosra Front and Islamic brigades had retreated Kassab, leaving behind a small number of fighters.”

Sunday, the NGO said the army had entered the city controlled by the rebels since March 21, but fighting continued. “The regime’s troops came to Kassab but have not taken the entire city. Fighting still oppose soldiers and rebels who remained, “said AFP Director of OSDH, Rami Abdel Rahman.

The withdrawal of most of the rebels came after “the army, supported by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters, was able to take the hills surrounding Kassab,” said Abdel Rahman. “This put the rebels in the line of sight of the army and Hezbollah,” said he added.

“There was a lack of supply and an advanced highly experienced Hezbollah and the Syrian special forces fighters,” said Abdel Rahman yet.

“The insurgents did not want to be besieged Kassab” by the army, as was the case in several localities rebels brought to their knees by the army in three years of war. “They preferred to withdraw.” Constantly bombarded by regime forces, the border post Kassab was important for the insurgents who were carrying their wounded in Turkey, an ally of the opposition.

The Syrian regime accused Ankara of aiding the rebels seize the city, whose inhabitants Armenian majority have fled their homes since March.