Syria Army Takes Control of Village near Qusayr
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Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad reclaimed control of the central village of Dabaa on Thursday, Syrian state television said, a day after the army and Hizbullah captured a rebel bastion.
"Our heroic armed forces have secured and stabilized the town of Dabaa, north of Qusayr," the broadcaster said.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, "fierce clashes" are still ongoing in parts of Dabaa.
The village has seen frequent hit-and-run operations by both regime and rebel forces.
It lies north of Qusayr, which fell to army and Hizbullah forces Wednesday, nearly three weeks after the launch of a vast assault on the town.
Thousands of civilians and rebels -- including wounded people -- fled Qusayr as the town fell out of insurgent control, most of them to the village of Eastern Bweida.
Eastern Bweida lies some seven kilometers (four miles) northeast of Dabaa.
"I am very concerned about what will happen to the people who were evacuated to Eastern Bweida," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, who had earlier called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate the wounded.
Backed by its ally Hizbullah, the Syrian army is pushing to wrest the last rebel bastions in central Syria from rebel hands.
Qusayr is strategic because it lies on the route linking Damascus to the coastline, which the regime is trying to secure ahead of any possible negotiations with the rebels.
06 June 2013, 20:48
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'"I am very concerned about what will happen to the people who were evacuated to Eastern Bweida," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, who had earlier called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate the wounded.'
They're hostages. May their fate be life.
06 June 2013, 22:00
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I didn't mean those taken by the Red Cross, they're lucky.
But the supposed "Thousands of civilians and rebels" that have fled Qusayr, while factoring in reports of civilians being committed as collateral damage/human-shields by rebels, makes me thing some civilians had been taken hostage.
Why is it that the lot of the population that hadn't left before the onslaught remained as the Syrian Army arrived, while some of them fled with the rebels? Or did the article didn't imply they left together? If it did, then what were the civilians afraid of? Were they coerced to leave with the rebels? More information is needed to rule out the notion that they haven't been taken hostage, given rebels reportedly, deliberately, and intentionally using civilians as collateral damage.
06 June 2013, 22:02
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Actually, lebcan, I retract my previous post.
Rebels taking thousands of civilians hostage is quite unlikely. Apologies.
06 June 2013, 21:27
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Time for the West to come in and blast away! No place in this world for evil forces like HA and Assad to remain alive!
06 June 2013, 22:10
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Russia needs Assad's Syria as their Mediterranean base and customer and the Americans need Assad to protect Israel from any attack from the Golen... (please, who ever wants to dispute this just remember for 30+ years not a single shot was fired towards Israel from the Golen under the rule of the Israeli friends the Assad and Hizbshitan).
On another note, should people really still believe that in 2000 and 2006 Israel and HA really really fought each other or did they merely fool everyone and both conspired to play the war game to increase the Zionist Agenda...
TRULY it is!!! HA and Zion that are true friends to one another.
and the Russia and the USA are in agreement... in secret.
06 June 2013, 22:13
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Israel and Iran conspiring together to [idk what you're implying here] is preposterous.
06 June 2013, 23:08
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endless it all a game and we are the pawns! they all agree to leave assad in power, everyone for different reasons of interests and that is what assad is playing on!
06 June 2013, 22:10
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I wish that were a probable event, peacelover, but a greater amount of our politicians are corrupt, fighting vendettas of the past, unable to perceive the future generation of the country, concerned with and able to perceive only the immediate future. What should be done is encouraging the youth to participate in political life and teach objectivity, in order for them to overthrow the current political giants robbing the country blind, as they've done for decades.
06 June 2013, 22:49
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I find Jumblatt's silence over the events of the past few weeks quite interesting...
06 June 2013, 23:06
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it takes brave men to do that... in lebanon they are all cowards and mafiosi working for their own power and interests....
06 June 2013, 23:45
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To the coward Syrian army .When are you going to get the Golan Heights back ? next life time perhaps .
07 June 2013, 03:01
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My friend and compatriot NostraGabbyMarch14, once again you are right!!! With every town and city that falls into the hands of the "ASSad" regime, the regime gets one step closer to... well... umm... duh... collapsing? What then should we say when these falling towns SUDDENLY became UNIMPORTANT AND INSIGNIFICANT? Last Thursday I watched NostraNouhadAlMachnouq (as of this past Tuesday, he became NostraNouhadAlMaftou2) confirm to Marcel al-Manfoush that these SIGNIFICANT towns and cities shall never fall! I think the High Council of NostraDamsels should kick al-Maftou2 out. The Nostras do not tolerate members who are always wrong.
07 June 2013, 09:38
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Town by town, village by village and street by street Syria will be cleansed from the terrorists that have dirtied its soil with their blood. May god protect the Arabic Syrian Army.
