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Insurgents, continuing their months-long advance in southern Syria, have made further gains near the Jordanian border.

Opposition fighters claimed the area east pf Naseeb, southeast of Daraa city and along a main highway from Damascus to Jordan (see map).

Footage from near the Jordanian border:

Insurgents celebrate after taking a checkpoint on the M5 highway from Damascus to Jordan (see map):

Syrian State news agency SANA makes no reference to the fighting this morning.

Insurgents already hold towns like Inkhil and Nawa and could put further pressure on the regime in Daraa, the main city near the border, and the Damascus-to-Daraa highway. Regime forces will try to resist from a base east of Inkhil and from the town of Shaykh Maskyn, further to the south.


Video: Insurgents Destroy Military Plane at Aleppo Airport

Claimed footage from the Harakat Hazm brigade of a TOW missile destroying a regime warplane near the hangar at Aleppo Airport:

Video: Islamic State Claims Seizure of Airdropped US Arms Near Kobane

The Islamic State claims it has seized one of the 27 bundles of arms and aid airdropped by the US and meant for Kurdish forces in and near Kobane:

Report: Peshmerga Allowed Transit to Kobane by Turkey Are Syrian Kurds

Journalist Jenan Moussa reports on the Kurds who are being allowed by Turkey to move from Iraq through Turkish territory, so they can defend the Kurdish center of Kobane in northern Syria:

Video: Explosion of Kurdish Ammunition Depot Near Kobane

Dramatic footage of the explosion at a Kurdish ammunition depot on Monday — the cause is still uncertain:

Renewed fighting between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State was reported on Monday night.

1st Medical Aid in Month to Besieged Al-Waer Section of Homs

The Red Cross has delivered the first medical aid in a month to the besieged neighborhood of Al-Waer in Homs.

The Red Cross and Syrian Arab Red Crescent said in a statement on Sunday that they had delivered chronic disease medicine to more than 5,000 people in Al-Waer. An activist said baby milk was also distributed.

Regime forces continue to bombard the area in an attempt to clear out insurgents, who evacuated other districts of Homs this spring.

Al-Waer is home to tens of thousands of Syrians who have been displaced from other areas of the country. Many suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and high blood pressure.

“Endemic Malnutrition” and “Food and Water Insecurity” in Yarmouk Section of Damascus

Chris Gunness of the UN tells Syria Deeply of the latest situation in the Yarmouk section of Damascus, besieged by regime forces since July 2013:

We estimate that there are 18,000 people there, which when you consider that the population was 160,000 before the fighting, is very telling. People are coping very badly because the public infrastructure has been appallingly degraded. There had already been wide destruction to the camp. Every day the siege continues, the situation gets worse. The fact that we have such little access in humanitarian terms is a continuing concern.

There is endemic malnutrition and people are dying, but what kills them is impossible for us to say. You can certainly say that insufficient intake of all the things that make up a normal diet is undoubtedly contributing very significantly to the decline in public health and could have very easily contributed to the deaths of residents in the camp.

Since September, there has been a real problem with water in Yarmouk because there is at least one very badly broken pipe. I’m not sure if it was broken during fighting or has been so badly degraded because the siege has been going on so long.

There has been essentially no water since early September. Residents of Yarmouk rely on ground water and a single well. We are following up with people and the relevant authorities, but our understanding is that the area that needs repair is in an insecure part of the capital, so it will be very hard and a concerted fiscal effort to get the pipe mended.

Food insecurity is there and now there is water insecurity.