REPORT: Syrian regime troops hoist Syrian flag in Yabroud

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REPORT: Syrian regime troops hoist Syrian flag in Yabroud

Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday that the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic was hoisted over Syria's Yabroud.

This as the state-run Syrian television showed footage of Syrian regime troops raising the Syrian flag in Yabroud's square.

Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah fighters took full control of the town of Yabroud on Sunday after driving out rebels, helping President Bashar al-Assad secure the land route connecting the capital Damascus with Aleppo and the Mediterranean coast.
    
The fall of Yabroud, the last rebel bastion near the Lebanese border, could sever a vital insurgent supply line from Lebanon and consolidate government control over a swathe of territory from Damascus to the central city of Homs.

A military source in Syria told Reuters that about 1,400 rebels from the Free Syrian Army, Ahrar al-Sham and other factions had fled Yabroud in the past two days.

Another 1,000 militants from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front had stayed to fight government forces which had entered eastern districts of Yabroud and captured several hilltops.
    
Thousands of civilians fled Yabroud, a town of about 40,000 to 50,000 people, roughly 60 km (40 miles) north of Damascus, and the surrounding areas after it was bombed and shelled last month ahead of the government offensive.
    
The government has been making incremental gains along the land route and around Damascus and Aleppo in the past months, regaining the initiative in the three-year uprising-turned-civil war, which has killed more than 140,000 people.
    
Syria's Mediterranean coastal region is strategically vital for Assad because it is the heartland of his minority Alawite community, whose faith is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.


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