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Summary Syrian rebels claimed to capture a third border crossing with Turkey on Sunday.
The Free Syrian Army has taken control of the Bab al-Salam crossing, but Assads forces are bombarding our positions from afar, said Ahmed Zaidan, spokesman for an opposition group called the Higher Council of the Revolutions Leadership.Syrian insurgents seized control of the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa and Jarablus crossings with Turkey last week, while Iraqi officials said Assads forces regained control of one of two border crossings seized by rebels on the frontier with Iraq.A Turkish official at the border confirmed that Bab al-Salam was in rebel hands. He said the Turkish side of the border gate - which normally operates mainly for commercial traffic from Turkey to the Syria city of Aleppo - remained open but there was no traffic.A senior Syrian army defector in Turkey, Staff Brigadier Faiz Amr, said Bab al-Salam was taken at 8:45 a.m. and Assads troops quickly fled.Amr said that his men in Syria had informed him that government forces stationed in Aleppo province were repositioning to Aleppo city, where Syrian troops and armored vehicles have pushed for two days into rebel-held districts.
