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Syrian army says seizes villages in Deraa, cuts rebel supply line

The Syrian army said on Monday it had captured several villages in the southern province of Deraa, cutting a supply route used by insurgents to smuggle weapons and fighters from Jordan to Damascus's Eastern Ghouta region. "The importance of this achievement is that it reopens the road between Deraa and Sweida," the army said in a statement publish on Syria's state news agency. "It also cuts the terrorist groups' supply lines by closing the gate of Lujat which was used to smuggle weapons and mercenary from Jordan towards Eastern Ghouta in the Damascus countryside." Sweida is home to the minority Druze population who have mostly stayed out of the Sunni-led revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was the first major government operation in the southern province of Deraa since the insurgents seized a border crossing with Jordan earlier this month.

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