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| Syrian forces 'kill many rebels' in Eastern Ghouta | |
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| Syrian government forces have ambushed and killed a large number of Islamist rebel fighters in the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, reports say. | Syrian government forces have ambushed and killed a large number of Islamist rebel fighters in the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, reports say. |
| Syrian state media says 175 died. | Syrian state media says 175 died. |
| The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has received reports that at least 70 died in the fighting in the Eastern Ghouta region. | |
| The area is a rebel stronghold where Syrian forces are believed to have carried out a chemical weapons attack last year. | The area is a rebel stronghold where Syrian forces are believed to have carried out a chemical weapons attack last year. |
| "Acting on information and in a well-organised ambush, our courageous army killed dozens of al-Nusra Front terrorists, most of them non-Syrians, in the Eastern Ghouta area," said state television. | |
| The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: "Dozens of Islamist fighters were killed and wounded in an ambush by loyalist troops, with the help of (Lebanese Shia group) Hezbollah, near Otaybeh village in the Eastern Ghouta area." | |
| State news agency Sana said the fighters were mainly Saudis, Qataris and Chechens. | |
| The Nusra Front is an al-Qaeda-linked group that has joined rebels in an armed revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. | |
| Syria's war has killed more than 140,000 people and forced millions to flee since March 2011. |