Syrian rebel fighters say they have seized an air base in the southern province of Daraa. Source: AAP
SYRIAN rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime have seized a 25-kilometre strip of land from the Jordanian border to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday fighters loyal a series of rebel brigades had taken control of the Al-Rai military checkpoint in the southern province of Daraa.
"The fighters seized the site after regime forces retreated," it said.
"The 25km area located between the towns of Muzrib (near the Jordanian border) and Abdin (in the Golan) is now out of regime control."
The Britain-based Observatory said in the past few days the rebels had seized several army checkpoints in the area and captured weapons and vehicles.
On Saturday they captured a key air base Daraa after two weeks of fierce battles with loyalist troops, it added.
The report came as Israel's new Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon vowed on Sunday an "immediate" answer to all Syrian gunfire onto the Golan Heights.
Yaalon issued the warning shortly after Israeli troops on the strategic plateau shot at a Syrian army post after coming under fire for the second time in 12 hours, according to the Israeli army.
"We see the Syrian regime as responsible for every breach of sovereignty. We shall not allow the Syrian army or any other body to violate Israeli sovereignty firing into our territory," Yaalon said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was from the Syrian army or from rebel forces in the area.
The rebel advances came days after insurgents seized a border crossing on the frontier with Jordan, said the Observatory.
A security source in Damascus said last week Jordan was allowing jihadist fighters and arms bought by Saudi Arabia from Croatia to be smuggled into Syria.
The source said around 2500 trained and heavily equipped rebels have entered Daraa in recent weeks, following reports American instructors were training rebels in neighbouring Jordan.
Jordanian Information Minister and government spokesman Samih Maaytah said earlier this month his country "rejects interfering in Syrian affairs".
"The Jordanian army is exerting a lot of efforts to control the border and prevent infiltrations," he said.
Louay Moqdad, a spokesman and co-ordinator for opposition forces, acknowledged that several Arab and Western nations had started training rebels forces, but declined to provide further details.
Earlier this month, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported rebels were being trained in Jordan by American specialists, a claim US officials have refused to comment on.
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