Syrian rebels kill nine soldiers in Idlib province

06.02.2012                      13.Schwat. 5772

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Syrian rebels kill nine soldiers in Idlib province

Former Syrian general tells 'Sunday Telegraph' that regime's troops demoralized, won't last past February.

Nine Syrian soldiers were killed and several others wounded in clashes Saturday overnight with opposition militias in the country's northwestern region, London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday according to AFP.
The clashes erupted in the restive Idlib province, a region that has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds in the Syrian opposition's efforts to unseat the regime of President Bashar Assad. The clashes included a rebel ambush on a military vehicle in Mount Zawiya near Syria's border with Turkey in which one Syrian soldier was killed….