Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have ambushed rebels
in a strategic suburb near the capital Damascus, killing at least 49
people, a pro-opposition monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the opposition fighters had been killed on Sunday near Adra, a town that rebels have been fighting to recapture from Assad's forces.
It lies on a route that the rebels had been using to smuggle weapons into Damascus until the army captured it a few months ago.
Also on Sunday government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria, killing at least 20 civilians, SOHR said.
The mortar shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the opposition fighters had been killed on Sunday near Adra, a town that rebels have been fighting to recapture from Assad's forces.
It lies on a route that the rebels had been using to smuggle weapons into Damascus until the army captured it a few months ago.
Also on Sunday government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria, killing at least 20 civilians, SOHR said.
The mortar shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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