Fighters return to Syria to help rebels
At least two thousand Syrian rebels reentered the country from Turkey last week to reinforce their fighters trying to ward off an attack by militias led by Kurds in Syria, said today rebel sources.
The rebels with weapons and vehicles, secretly driven to the border by Turkish forces during the night, before heading to the rebel stronghold of Azaz, the sources said.
"We were allowed to transfer everything from small arms to heavy mortars and rockets and our tanks," he told Reuters Abu Isa, commander of the Front Levent, the group of rebels who manages the border crossing Bab al-Salama, speaking with nickname and condition of anonymity.
"There is a strong security forces on the road leading from one border crossing to another within four hours," he added, saying that the rebels are not transported from the hardline Front Nosra or other jihadist organizations.
On Sunday, the Syrian government had said that Turkish forces were among the 100 who entered the armed Syria accompanied by 12 vans full of heavy machine guns, in an ongoing guerrilla supply business.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO based in Britain that captures the developments of the war in Syria, confirmed by the side of how hundreds of fighters the rebels with weapons have already crossed a border crossing with destination Azaz, according to the Athens Agency.
Another source of the rebels said the Turkish army has intensified the distribution of ammunition and heavy military equipment in the last two days in order to reinforce the rebels to face the great attack which unleashed the Syrian army and its allies.
The attack has helped the Syrian army to arrive within 25 miles from the Turkish border for the first time in two years.
Meanwhile, the Syrian army, backed by fierce Russian air strikes, said it took the city Kansampa in northern Latakia province.
The occupation of the city in the northeastern mountainous area allows the army and supported by Iran allies to launch wider operations to recover the city Tzsr al Sougkour by rebels, northeast of Kansampa in Idlib province.
The army said the recapture of this region of Latakia allows it to launch a major operation to recover the northwestern province of Idlib, the bulk of which is under the control of Islamist groups.
At least two thousand Syrian rebels reentered the country from Turkey last week to reinforce their fighters trying to ward off an attack by militias led by Kurds in Syria, said today rebel sources.
The rebels with weapons and vehicles, secretly driven to the border by Turkish forces during the night, before heading to the rebel stronghold of Azaz, the sources said.
"We were allowed to transfer everything from small arms to heavy mortars and rockets and our tanks," he told Reuters Abu Isa, commander of the Front Levent, the group of rebels who manages the border crossing Bab al-Salama, speaking with nickname and condition of anonymity.
"There is a strong security forces on the road leading from one border crossing to another within four hours," he added, saying that the rebels are not transported from the hardline Front Nosra or other jihadist organizations.
On Sunday, the Syrian government had said that Turkish forces were among the 100 who entered the armed Syria accompanied by 12 vans full of heavy machine guns, in an ongoing guerrilla supply business.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO based in Britain that captures the developments of the war in Syria, confirmed by the side of how hundreds of fighters the rebels with weapons have already crossed a border crossing with destination Azaz, according to the Athens Agency.
Another source of the rebels said the Turkish army has intensified the distribution of ammunition and heavy military equipment in the last two days in order to reinforce the rebels to face the great attack which unleashed the Syrian army and its allies.
The attack has helped the Syrian army to arrive within 25 miles from the Turkish border for the first time in two years.
Meanwhile, the Syrian army, backed by fierce Russian air strikes, said it took the city Kansampa in northern Latakia province.
The occupation of the city in the northeastern mountainous area allows the army and supported by Iran allies to launch wider operations to recover the city Tzsr al Sougkour by rebels, northeast of Kansampa in Idlib province.
The army said the recapture of this region of Latakia allows it to launch a major operation to recover the northwestern province of Idlib, the bulk of which is under the control of Islamist groups.
