Syrian forces reportedly shell makeshift hospital as more than 1,000 rebels step up bid to wrestle control of key city.
More than 1000 rebel fighters have broken through army lines to enter Qusayr in Western Syria as the battle for the beset city near the Lebanese border intensifies, opposition avitivists have said.
Syrian state media said on Friday that government forces had surrounded the city and activists reported that regime troops had carried out a deadly attacked a convoy trying to evacuate wounded people from Qusayr.
Sabra said in Istanbul about 1,000 fighters from across Syria had penetrated the rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that hundreds of rebels had broken through army lines near the village of Shamsinn, northeast of Qusayr, after losing 11 fighters.
The Coalition has appealed for the rescue of 1,000 civilians wounded in Qusayr, which Assad's forces have been trying to seize back in an all-out offensive since May 19.
Qusayr-based activist Hadi Abdullah said the shelling of the convoy had killed nine people and wounded many others.
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