Syrian rebels have posted videos on YouTube showed dozens of bodies for Iraqi
Shi’ite militias reportedly were killed in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus in what they called ‘Ghouta
Epic’.
General leadership of rebels command in
Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said more than 800 militant of the
forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed in recent battles east
Damascus.
Fierce fighting has erupted since last
month to the east of Damascus as rebels struggle to break a months-long
blockade by regime forces.
The fighting began on mid November when
rebel units attacked a string of military checkpoints encircling the
opposition-held suburbs in Eastern Ghouta, which has been under siege for more
than six months.
The blockade has cut off rebels’
weapons supplies and helped turn the tide of fighting around the capital in Al
Assad’s favour.
Assad's
military resurgence this year has relied to a great extent on support from
Shi'ite Iran and fighters
from Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, some of them based around a
Shi'ite shrine southeast of Damascus.
They
have helped turn the tide against the Sunni Muslim rebels, whose ranks are
increasingly dominated by Islamist fighters and al Qaeda-linked foreign
jihadists.
"In
the last few months Assad has been increasingly leaving the fighting in the
urban areas, especially Damascus and its environs, to his Shi'ite allies,"
a Middle East security official said according to Reuters.
Hezbollah
and its patron Iran do not comment on their operations in Syria.
The statement said that rebels had
captured 44 armored vehicles and had liberated many villages and
towns.
The conflict in Syria has killed more than 126,000 people, according to Human Rights NGO's.
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