叙利亚活动人士称支持政府的部队进攻霍姆斯战略要地 Activists:Pro-Syria Troops Advance in Key Homs Neighborhood

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02 May, 2013

叙利亚活动人士说,忠于总统阿萨德的部队正在进攻夺取中部城市霍姆斯的一个战略要地。

设在英国的叙利亚人权了望台星期四说,政府军已经攻占瓦迪阿尔萨耶居民区的一大部分。这个在市中心的这个居民区四周连接若干反政府武装控制的地区。

人权了望台警告说,一旦忠于总统阿萨德的政府军全部攻占他们所说的这个城市“老区”,那就担心可能会发生派别之间的杀戮。

霍姆斯是叙利亚第三大城市,扼守着位于南方的首都大马士革和北方商业城市阿勒颇之间的公路,是咽喉要道。在两年多以来的反抗阿萨德的战斗中,这个城市也是反政府军的重要战略据点。

Syrian activists say forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are pushing to gain control in a strategically important section of the central city of Homs.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday the troops have taken over a large part of the Wadi al-Sayeh neighborhood, which sits between several rebel-controlled districts in center of the city.

The Observatory warned that if pro-Assad forces capture what it calls the city's "old neighborhoods," then there are fears that sectarian killings could follow.

Homs is Syria's third-largest city, located along a highway about halfway between the capital, Damascus, to the south and the commercial center of Aleppo to the north.  It has been a key hub in the more than two-year-old uprising against Mr. Assad.