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OPPOSITION jihadist forces overran a Syrian military base at the former Qarmeed factory at Ariha, Idlib province, yesterday, stealing tanks and arms.
Militants led by the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front have captured the provincial capital, a strategic town, villages and military bases since it began its Idlib offensive last month.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that in their latest strike the insurgents had captured seven tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy machine guns and ammunition.
Activist sources said that the jihadists have now turned their guns on the nearby Mastoumeh military base.
Government aircraft carried out more than a dozen bombing raids on the Qarmeed base after its capture.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that four Syrian soldiers had been killed by a missile fired from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights at the same time that Israel said it had conducted an air strike on “a group of armed terrorists.”
