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                 Activists: Al-Qaida Fighters Seize Syrian Base

   by VOA News

   Activists say fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front have seized
   an army base in northwestern Syria.

   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said militants
   from a group called Jund al-Aqsa helped the Nusra fighters take the
   Wadi Deif base in Idlib province on Monday.

   Opposition forces have carried out multiple sieges of the base since
   2012. The site is located about one kilometer from the main north-south
   highway in Syria, which links the key cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs
   to the capital, Damascus.

   The state-run SANA news agency reported Syrian forces killing several
   "terrorists" in the area near the base.  The government routinely
   refers to opposition fighters as terrorists.
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