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| Rebels 'killed in Syria army ambush' | Rebels 'killed in Syria army ambush' |
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| At least 62 rebel fighters have been killed in an ambush by the Syrian army, a monitoring group says. | At least 62 rebel fighters have been killed in an ambush by the Syrian army, a monitoring group says. |
| The rebels were killed in a dawn ambush near the town of Adra, east of Damascus, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. | The rebels were killed in a dawn ambush near the town of Adra, east of Damascus, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. |
| "At least 62 rebels fell as martyrs, most of them youths," the group said. | "At least 62 rebels fell as martyrs, most of them youths," the group said. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Sana said the rebels' machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades were confiscated. | |
| More than 100,000 people have been killed in the 28-month conflict in Syria, with a further 1.7 million Syrians forced to seek shelter in neighbouring countries, according to UN estimates. | |
| The army is still in control of much of Damascus and routes to the west, while the rebels have taken over swathes of the north and east. | |
| On Tuesday rebels captured a key airbase in Aleppo province, near the Turkish border. | |
| The Menagh base lies on a major rebel supply route from Turkey. | |
| Rebels have also recently taken several villages in Latakia province, the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect. | |
| But forces loyal to the president have also made recent gains - in the cities of Damascus and Homs, and other areas of Aleppo. |