Syria: Al-Assad Regime Beefs Up Troops Near Damascus Airport

  • 12/16/2022
  • 07:32
  • 11
  • 0
  • 0
news-picture

Beirut, Safar 9, 1434, Dec 22, 2012, SPA - Al-Assad Regime in Syria has deployed additional forces on a road near Damascus airport in a bid to stop an advance by opposing fighters, activists said Saturday. "Soldiers from the elite 15th Army Brigade backed by tanks were brought into the area overnight and positioned on the road linking the airport to the capital," a Syrian activist in the area, told dpa. The move came in response to an advance made by the opposing fighters in the area, he added. Elsewhere, the opposing fighters urged civilians to stay clear of Aleppo airport, in northern Syria, saying the facility is no longer a safe area. At the same time, Yasser Abboud, a commander of the Free Syrian Army in the southern province of Daraa, called on civilians to avoid using a highway linking Daraa to Damascus. "We call on civilians and truck drivers to avoid this road because it is now considered a military zone," he said. --SPA 13:41 LOCAL TIME 10:41 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1061542

مشاركة :