[AnNahar] Almost 70 fighters have been killed in the two-week-old battle between pro-government forces and Salafist tough guys for control of Zabadani on Syria's border with Leb, a monitoring group said Monday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 46 rebels and 21 members of Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
fighting on the government side have died since pro-regime forces entered the town of Zabadani on July 4.
It did not give a figure for Syrian army losses in and around Zabadani, which lies north of Damascus and in February 2012 became the first town to fall into rebel hands.
According to the Britannia-based Observatory, regime aircraft have dropped 600 barrel bombs since the launch of the government offensive to recapture the town.
Regime forces have seized control of a hilltop overlooking the south of Zabadani.