Hezbollah
officially announced killing of commander Ali Iskander in Ghouta, eastern suburbs of Syria’s capital.
Pro-Assad
activists accused Hezbollah of treason on Sunday due to the disobedience of
Syrian Army orders what cost large number of causalities within regular
army in eastern Damascus suburbs .
Assad’s
Servant, well-known facebook page loyal to Bashar al-Assad, said more than 60
soldiers of regular army have been killed today due to the disobedience of
Syrian Army orders by Hezbollah amid news of rebels’ advances in 6 towns east
Damascus, according to Zaman Alwasl’s reporter.
Heavy
clashes between Syrian troops and rebels trying to break a government siege in
the suburbs of Damascus have killed at least 160 fighters over two days,
activists said Sunday, AP said.
Forces
loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have laid siege for months to rebel
strongholds in the Ghouta area east of Damascus, preventing food, clean water,
medicine and other supplies from entering in a bid to crush resistance.
The
intense fighting in the eastern Ghouta area began on Friday when several rebel
groups attacked government forces, according to the British-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights and an activist based in Qalamoun. The activist
spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisals, according to
AP.
Observatory
director Rami Abdurrahman said the rebels were trying to open the road between
Ghouta and the outside.
He
said more than 160 fighters were killed Friday and Saturday, including nearly
100 rebels, most of them from al-Qaeda-linked groups, the Nusra Front and the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Among
the more than 60 fighters killed on the government side were 20 gunmen from the
Iraqi Shiite Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas brigade, he said.
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