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| Rebel command base moved inside Syria |
| 2012-09-23 |
| ALEPPO: Rebels have moved their command base from Turkey to “liberated areas” inside Syria, they announced yesterday as regime troops and rebels battled for control of a corridor near the border. “The Free Syrian Army command has moved into liberated areas of Syria following arrangements made with battalions and brigades to secure these zones,” FSA chief Col. Riyadh Al-Asaad said in a video posted on the Internet. The next step would be to “liberate” the capital Damascus, he added. Nearly 80 percent of towns and villages on the Turkish border are outside government control, and President Bashar Assad’s portraits have been removed from many public buildings, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The transfer will allow the command center to be closer to the fighters,” Gen. Mustafa Al-Sheikh, head of the military council grouping rebel chiefs, told AFP, but declining to say where the new command would be located. |
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