BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army has regained control of the strategic town of Qusair on the border with Lebanon, Syrian state television said on Wednesday.
Government and rebel forces have been fighting in Qusair for more than two weeks in a two-year-old civil war that has killed more than 80,000. The town is on a cross-border supply route between Lebanon and Syria.
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