BEIRUT: Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made new advances on Sunday on the rebel stronghold town of Qusayr near the border with Lebanon, reports said.
Activists say the army, backed by pro-regime militia and the Lebanese Hezbollah, is aiming to crush insurgents in villages surrounding Qusayr, and to then launch an assault on the town itself.
Three new shells launched from the Qusayr area landed in eastern Lebanon, the official National News Agency reported, in what rebels described as retaliation for Hezbollah's involvement in Syria's war and for allegedly firing from across the Lebanese border.
Two of the shells hit the outskirts of the town of Hermel and the other hit the Qasr area, said the Lebanese agency.
Qusayr has been under rebel control for more than a year. It is strategic because it lays on a route linking Damascus to the coast.
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