AMMAN (Reuters) - Army defectors fought government troops on Sunday in one of the biggest battles of Syria's nine-month uprising, and a strike shut businesses in a new gesture of civil disobedience, residents and activists said.
Troops mainly from the 12th Armoured Brigade, based in Isra, 40-km (25 miles) from the southern border with Jordan, stormed the nearby town of Busra al-Harir on Sunday.
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