Loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army and militia forces push back the heart of the mountain, and his Alawi sect rebel attack, officials and activists said on Monday, after several days of fierce fighting and aerial bombardment.
Islamic rebels Allawi Hill, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on the northern edge of the assault drove hundreds of villagers to the coast Alawi in central Syria Assad reiterated power marks a major challenge.
However, the competition for a two-year uprising has been plunged into a devastating civil war, Syrian President to send reinforcements to repel the attack Latakia rugged northern region.
Syrian Observatory on Human Rights Monitoring Group, said Assad's forces have recaptured the rebels seize when they launched their attack two weeks ago, and to regain control of the nine Alawi villages all military observation post.
The army is still trying to recapture the two villages, the Observatory's head Rami Abdelrahman said fierce fighting continued on Monday.
State news agency SANA said the army had been "processed, the last terrorist organizations in the region," and seized their weapons.
Activists said the rebels killed 200 people, most of them civilians, three days before their villages assault drove hundreds. They also shot down a military aircraft, announced on Sunday, according to amateur video clip.
At one stage, a rebel commander said the rebels had reached within 20 km (12 miles) of Qardaha - Assad's hometown, his father Hafez al-Assad, a three years The iron-fisted rule of Syria and burial place.
Support for the rebels, they are a sign of progress symbolic gesture, the head of Syria freedom army was filmed visiting Latakia province last week.
However, IDF troops and pro-Assad militia fighters pushed the rebels, killing many soldiers, including foreign jihadists integral part of the Arab al-Qaeda-linked rebel brigade front.
Jets bombed the town of Sunni Muslim rebel attacks against Allawi Salma start villagers minority is a branch of Shiite Islam.
Syria's conflict has killed more than 10 people dead, began to peaceful protest, requiring Assad to step down, but now has been destroyed between Sunni and Alawite sect rising bloodshed.
Chemical TEAM
On Sunday, a team arrived in Damascus, the UN chemical weapons expert-month delay, due to the possible use of chemical weapons dating back to last December, the Syrian civil war began investigating reports.
Government and rebels accused each other of using chemical weapons, the United States has said it will pass through a "red line" in the conflict, a step by step.
Chemical weapons Syria wider wars, into a world power. The United States in June, said it believed Assad's forces used their small size, while in July the Russian said, sarin rebels launch near Aleppo in March.
UN team, including weapons, the OPCW experts will try to establish whether it is chemical weapons, including sarin and other toxic nerve agents are used, not the people using them.
"This is the first probe to use in the 21st century WMD allegations," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
"If confirmed, the use of chemical weapons by any party in any case, must be held accountable, would constitute international crimes," he told a news conference.
Team due to visit three locations, including in Syria Khan al-Assal in the north, but it is unclear when they will make these trips.
, "Ban said:" In order to convincingly establish the facts, the mission must have full access to the site of the alleged events.
"This includes access to the site to make the necessary analysis and collection of samples, but also including interviews and examination of witnesses, victims, medical personnel as well as to participate in an autopsy," he added.
Syria unrest not only torn country, it also dragged in neighboring countries and regions of rising sectarian tensions. Foreign Sunni fighters have flocked to Syria Assad's fighting, Lebanon and Iraq's Shiite side of the president joined the battle.
"Base" organization in Iraq, Islamic countries and the eastern Mediterranean, is also growing with the Kurdish fighters clashed in the north and northeast of the country - the recent wave of refugees into northern Iraq Kurdish one of the factors behind.
More than 20,000 people have entered one of the largest port in northern Iraq, since last Thursday, since March 2011 since the conflict broke out, some from far away in Aleppo, 450 km (280 miles) to the west.
The border between Syria and Iraq has been largely closed since the Kurdish regional government authorities on May 19, in addition to the official from a single point of intersection of Al-Wahid al-Anbar province off the crossing.
The latest wave of refugees crossed a new pontoon bridge over the Tigris in Peshkhabour, adding to the 150,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria have been registered.
Syrian refugees who have fled the total number has nearly $ 200 million in just five months, an increase of nearly doubled, resulting in some of the neighboring countries of Syria to strengthen border controls in recent weeks to stop flowing.



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