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    Syrian rebels, government fight over key highways

    Syrian rebels cut on Saturday a newly built desert road linking the capital Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, an activist group said, while the state media reported that government troops have secured the highway between the capital and the southern city of Daraa.The reported fighting came as an activist group said U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, who left the country last year, met with a rebel commander at a border crossing point with Turkey.The Aleppo Media Center said Ford met on Thursday with Col. Abdul-Jabbar al-Akidi, head of Aleppo province's rebel military council at the Bab al-Salama border crossing point. It posted a picture and a video of the two men standing on a road just a few meters (yards) outside a fence that appeared to be the border between Turkey and Syria.The AMC quoted al-Akidi as calling on the U.S. to lift an arms embargo imposed on rebels.The U.S. so far has balked at sending weapons to the rebels, fearing the arms could end up in the hands of al...

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