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Rebels launch counteroffensive in Syria’s Homs

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20-04-2014 | 12:27

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Opposition gunmen launched on Sunday a counteroffensive in the neighborhoods of the old city of Homs, taking control of several buildings in regime-held areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said "opposition gunmen have reclaimed the initiative and have taken control of several buildings in the Jeb al-Jandali area" in Homs.

Meanwhile, rebels and troops battled on the edges of Homs' besieged old city, as army troops pounded a handful of opposition areas there with tank and rocket fire.

This comes nearly a week after the army launched a fierce ground offensive aimed at reclaiming a handful of besieged areas that are the opposition's last remaining stronghold in the city.

Syrian conflict started in March 2011 as largely peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It gradually turned into a civil war after some opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

The fighting has taken on increasingly sectarian overtones over the past year, pitting Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's government that is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam to which the president's family also belongs.

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