Attacks yield large number of weapons, which had been in
short supply
Syrian rebels' success in seizing three military bases in less than a week
has underscored the growing difficulty faced by Damascus in securing its
outposts and stopping a rebel encroachment that has claimed large swaths of the
east and north of the country.
Attacks on the bases, one
north-east of Aleppo, a second at Mayedin in the far east and a third near
Damascus, yielded a large number of weapons, which had been in desperately short
supply, especially in positions across Syria's second city.
The impact of the new weapons seemed to have been felt immediately along
northern frontlines, where Kurdish groups loyal to the Assad regime were on
Friday engaged in their heaviest clashes yet with rebel forces and jihadists,
near the border town of Ras al-Ain....."
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