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Syrian forces kill 50 rebels in coastal Latakia city

Xinhua, July 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Syrian army has killed more than 50 rebels in the countryside of the coastal city of Latakia in northern Syria, the official Syrian TV said Tuesday.

The military targeted the rebels' positions in the towns of Dwerashan, Darra and Rbaia in the northern countryside of Latakia, said the TV.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog group, said the rebel militants targeted government troops' positions in northern Latakia with many mortar shells, while the military units responded by shelling the rebel-held town of Salma near Latakia, with no reports on losses yet.

Battles in the northern countryside of Latakia have been incessant since the rebels in the northwestern province of Idlib captured areas adjacent to the coastal city, the hometown of President Bashar al-Assad and the heartland of this Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Endit