Syrian government targets rebels near Israel's Golan
Syrian government forces unleashed hundreds of missiles on a rebel-held area near the Golan Heights on Sunday, activists said, the latest phase in an offensive to clear southern Syria of insurgents.
The government's push came after it had secured control of most of Daraa province in an offensive that began in June. On Sunday, the first batch of armed fighters and their families left the city of Daraa, the provincial capital, in buses that would take them to the rebel-held Idlib province in the north.
Similar deals in other parts of Syria resulted in the evacuation of thousands of opposition fighters and civilians—evacuations that the United Nations and rights groups have decried as forced displacement.
