SYRIAN rebels said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus, a rare advance on the city after a series of opposition setbacks in the capital.
SYRIAN rebels said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus, a rare advance on the city after a series of opposition setbacks in the capital.
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Oliver Holmes BEIRUT/AKCAKALE
Rebel forces overran the base in the eastern Gouta area, a few miles east of Damascus, as about 180 people were killed in violence across the country, including 48 government soldiers, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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