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Rebels capture air base in northern Syria | The Times of Israel.

Airfield seizure comes day after Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam

A statue of Hafez Assad, father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, burns after being set on fire by rebel fighters inside the grounds of the General Company of the Euphrates Dam in al-Raqqa, Syria, on Monday, February 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say rebels have captured a military air base in the country’s north, their second strategic victory in as many days.

The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdul-Rahman says the rebels took control of the al-Jarrah air base in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday.

He says that after days of sporadic clashes at the airfield, opposition fighters launched an operation to capture al-Jarrah on Monday and had overrun the facility by Tuesday morning.

The seizure of the airfield comes a day after Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam in one of their biggest strategic victories since the crisis began two years ago.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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