SANA (Syria), REUTERS
BEIRUT – Sixty-two rebel fighters were killed in a Syrian army ambush at dawn on Wednesday near the town of Adra, east of Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
The state news agency SANA did not give a death toll for the ambush but said the rebels were from the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. It said all the rebels were killed and machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades were confiscated.
SANA said the “terrorists” included non-Syrians and the Observatory said that eight rebels were still unaccounted for after the attack, which happened west of an industrial area east of Adra. Assad’s forces have been on the offensive around Damascus after rebels pushed into towns and suburbs on the outskirts of the capital last year.
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Free Syrian Army rebels – Photo : Freedom House
