The Syrian War continues ups and downs. Assad’s frocs now composed mostly of Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iraqis and Houthi Yemenites have made some advances in the southern Suburbs of Damascus against the Free Syrian Army. Meanwhile, about 100 miles to the north in Homs, al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army in a complicated operation seized a huge weapons depots that includes Missiles, anti-tank weapons and other munitions.
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fought rebels in a small town 100 km north of Damascus Thursday after video footage showed the opposition captured a huge weapons cache.
The looting of hundreds of weapons in the town of Mahin will aid rebels who are based there, halfway between the capital and Homs, two cities where the opposition has tried to take territory during the civil war.
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Eliot Higgins, a U.K.-based researcher who trawls daily through online videos of Syria’s civil war and verifies weapons in them, said he had not seen a “big ammo cache like this for several months.”
He said that in addition to mortar bombs, artillery and tank ammunition, the size and length of some of the boxes in one video posted online by rebels indicated there were rockets.
“This will help [the rebels’] war efforts. In that one room there is a very significant amount but, depending on the intensity of the of the fighting, they could burn through these in a couple of weeks,” he said.
20,000 120mm mortar shells
10,000 tank shells
“Thousands” of RPG rockets and AA (presumably 23mm/14.5) rounds
“Millions” of 7.62×39 and 7.62×54 bullets
4,000 Konkurs ATGMs
“Tens of thousands” of 130mm shells
4 million litres of diesel fuel.
