WarClashes's video: Syrian Army And NDF Forces In Heavy Combat With Rebels

Syrian troops captured a key town from rebels near the Lebanese border on Tuesday, days after launching a broad offensive to retake a mountainous western region, state media and activists said. The attack on Qara began on Friday morning in what appears to be an operation aimed at sealing off the Lebanese border and cutting rebel supply lines from the neighboring country. The area is strategically significant, as it was on one of the opposition's last remaining supply routes. Jabat al-Nusra said that it and other groups had withdrawn from the area, and many rebels are reported to have been killed. Qara lies 100km (60 miles) north of Damascus. Two suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah's support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying battle over Syria's civil war that is rattling its smaller neighbor Lebanon. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying more would follow unless the Shiite Hezbollah withdraws fighters that have helped Assad's military score key victories over Syrian rebels. The Syrian army continues its operations against the militants across the Arab country. According to a military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, on Monday, the government troops stormed the militants' hideouts and killed scores of them in the countryside of the capital Damascus. The Syrian army units battled militants in Hasakah countryside, killing and injuring scores of them, the source added. The troops also destroyed several vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition in Idlib countryside. Like Our Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/1h2gWju Subscribe To Warclashes: http://bit.ly/1jNCmDm