Assad's warplanes continue to strike Yabroud

Syrian war planes continued to strike Yabroud Thursday, the Qalamoun Media Center reported, as official government news agency SANA said the Syrian army had advanced from the Rima farms toward Yabroud, destroying “terrorist dens full of weapons and munitions, and killing a number of them.”

Regime troops supported by Hezbollah have been attempting to seize Yabroud, the largest remaining rebel-held stronghold in the Qalamoun mountains near Syria’s border with Lebanon, for more than a month, using both air and ground forces. Syria Direct