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Archive for August 16, 2012
FSA claims killed 35 Syrian government soldiers and seized anti-aircraft weapons
By Al Arabiya with agencies
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) said Thursday that it has killed 35 soldiers from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Aleppo, and showed a video of weapons it claimed to have seized from the embattled regime in Damascus.
The FSA’s Abu Bakr al-Sadiq Brigade announced in a video broadcast on Al Arabiya that among the weapons it has seized, there were four 23 mm anti-aircraft guns and one rocket to “down Assad’s helicopters.”
It said the weapons were taken in a joint operation with the Ghota Western Brigades from Damascus, after clashes with forces loyal to Assad on the outskirts of the capital, in al-Dhamir city.
via FSA claims killed 35 Syrian government soldiers and seized anti-aircraft weapons.
