SYRIAN rebels have seized control of a sector of Sheikh Suleiman base west of Aleppo, bringing them closer to holding a large swathe of territory extending to the Turkish border in the north.
The rebels on Sunday took control of Regiment 111 and three other company posts located inside the base after fierce fighting overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Two rebels and one soldier were killed, while five soldiers were captured. The prisoners said that 140 of their men had fled to the scientific research centre on the base," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Sheikh Suleiman sprawls over nearly 200 hectares of rocky hills about 25km from Aleppo city, an area now almost completely under rebel control.
Elsewhere in northern Syria, 10 were reported killed in regime shelling of the town of Maraayan, while five civilians, including a child, were killed as Ahsam village in Idlib province was shelled, the Observatory said.
The Observatory, which relies on a countrywide network of activists and medics, gave an initial toll of 41 people killed nationwide on Sunday, including 19 civilians.
Meanwhile nine state judges and prosecutors have defected to the opposition.
The Observatory says the latest defectors from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad come from the northern city of Adlib.
In video statement, posted online on Sunday, the nine judges identify themselves by name as one of them reads a joint statement and urges others to break ranks with Assad.
Many government officials and army officers have abandoned the regime to join the opposition since the uprising started in March 2011.
Ex-Prime Minister Riad Hijab is the most senior Syrian official to defect so far.
Syria's opposition is dominated by members of the country's Sunni minority. Assad's regime is predominantly Alawite, an offshoot group of Shi'ite Islam.
In all, more than 42,000 people have been killed since the uprising against al-Assad's rule erupted in March last year, according to the Observatory's figures.
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