The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Syria Rebels Overrun Towns Near Border With Israel, Monitoring Group Says -- Haaretz/Reuters
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels have captured Khan Arnabeh, which sits on the Israeli-Syrian disengagement line and straddles a main road leading into Israeli-held territory.
Syrian rebels have overrun several towns near the Israeli Golan Heights in the past 24 hours, rebels and a monitoring group said on Thursday, fueling tensions in the sensitive military zone.
"We have been attacking government positions as the army has been shelling civilians, and plan to take more towns," said Abu Essam Taseel, from the media office of the "Martyrs of Yarmouk", a rebel brigade operating in the area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group monitoring the conflict in Syria, said rebels had taken several towns near the Golan plateau, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed.
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Update: Syrian rebels advance on areas near Israeli-controlled Golan Heights -- Washington Post/AP
My Comment: More proof that the Syrian regime is slowly imploding. As to the situation on the border, I doubt that the Syrian rebels will now start to shoot at Israeli border guards .... their focus at the moment is on Assad's regime. But after .... who knows.
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