Rebels attack biggest checkpoints in Homs

The Mulok checkpoint in Homs has long been the key to liberate besieged Homs because it separates Homs from its suburbs.

This checkpoint, which is located north of Homs and about 5 km long, is one of regime’s biggest checkpoints which brought death and destruction to the city and its suburbs.

In al-Mulouk , there are more than 40 tanks , 30 armored personnel vehicle, 1,200 military regime forces and 100 of Hezbollah militia ( Halesh ) , according to activists .

Surrounded from different sides with sand barricades, with height up to more than two meters , and consisted of a number of points connected to each other , this checkpoint also has an incubator and huge popularity among the Shiite and Nusyria villages which protect and support it .

On Saturday, rebels from north of Homs had violent clashes with this checkpoint using heavy weapons and mortars, which led to the destruction of a tank t62 and armored vehicle.

on the importance of targeting al-Mulouk and the course of the battle which led to its liberation, activist Ahmed Orabi Talbisa, correspondent of Sham Network told Zaman Al Wasl :” Mulouk checkpoint or ( Mulouk Camp) if the name is correct , is one of the biggest checkpoints in Homs governorate because it includes the largest number of military vehicles , and is the first place to finance and provide military supply in terms of equipment , ammunition and shabeeha.

In addition to approximately 40 tanks and the huge numbers of shabeeha , it has a strategic location because it separates the countryside from the city .

It is also the extended point of pro- regime villages, since it’s in one line with the Shiite village ( AlKam) , and Al Nejma, AL Ashrafia, and Mukhtaria villages.

In contrast to the west, Adon Checkpoint which is less fortunate in terms of ammunition and machinery, and separates the three villages of al- Ghannto , Talbisah, and Ter malah, knowing that most of the soldiers inside it are from Abu al Fadl al Abbas factions in addition to Lebanese Hezbollah’s Shiite militias .

In regard to liberating Mulok checkpoint by rebels of Northern Homs, activist Orabi says: Hazem movement in cooperation with the rest of military formations tried to break the siege of Homs since the night before yesterday, where violent clashes with heavy weapons and mortars occurred, and led to the destruction of a tank t62 and an armored personnel vehicle.

The clashes also led to verified causalities in shabeeha’s congregations, and as a result ambulances sirens were heard in the city transporting wounded to regime-held areas.

In a related context, Assad’s army tried yesterday morning to sneak into the farms of Ter malah village, causing a large wave of civilians immigration toward the villages of Alfarhanah and lmakramah . He added

The shelling on the city led to the death of dozen of FSA fighters and some civilians as follows : three martyrs from Talbisah , four FSA fighters from Ter malah , two from Al Dar Al Kabera, one from Deir Balba, and two from Sreheen in Hama, and the battle is still ongoing until today. Translation by Dani  Murad