الثوار يستولون على ثلاث قواعد عسكرية في أسبوع Syrian rebels capture three military bases in a week
Syrian rebels capture three military bases in a week Attacks yield large number of weapons, which had been in short supply · · Martin Chulov in Beirut · guardian.co.uk , Friday 23 November 2012 Syrians watch a bulldozer clear debris outside al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, hit by a bomb dropped from a jet. Photograph: Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images 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 ...