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Beirut. — Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah entered the town of Zabadani yesterday in a bid to take the last rebel-held bastion along the Lebanese border.
Elsewhere, at least 30 people, including six civilians, were killed in some of the heaviest US-led air strikes yet on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.
And the jihadist group carried out a double car bomb attack that killed 11 people in northwestern Hasakeh city, where regime forces have been fighting to fend off an IS assault.
Syrian state television and Hezbollah’s Al-Manar station announced the advance into Zabadani yesterday, a day after a major operation against it began.
“Heroic army forces in co-operation with the Lebanese resistance took control of the Al-Jamaiyat neighbourhood in western Zabadani and the Al-Sultana neighbourhood in the east of the city,” state television said.
“Operations are continuing with dozens of terrorists killed and wounded.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime forces and Hezbollah had entered Zabadani and intense clashes were underway in its east and west. — AFP.
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