Weeks ago, government soldiers retook surrounding areas, including the town of Bweida, where activists reported dozens of civilians were killed.
For months, the small community of Jewish settlers in Hebron -- about 400 people living in the heart of a city of more than 120,000 Palestinians -- have called on the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to retake Abu Sneina and other surrounding hills.
The Syrian army, which has been fighting to retake the Palmyra and surrounding areas since they fell in May, had managed to secure the oil field's perimeter in June.
In 1134, Yue Fei defeated Li and retook Xiangyang and its surrounding prefectures.
He suggested that Mr. Sharon either retake Abu Sneina and other surrounding hills -- or evacuate the Jewish community.
Prime Minister Yehude Simon said the officers were killed in the events surrounding a push to retake a pumping station belonging to Petroperú, the national oil company, in the northern Bagua Province, where indigenous protesters had kidnapped 38 police officers.
Government forces have already retaken dozens of villages and towns surrounding the city and are currently consolidating gains made in Mosul's eastern outskirts.
Government forces have already retaken dozens of villages and towns surrounding the city and entered its outskirts for the first time since it was seized in June 2014.
In recent months, soldiers backed by fighters from Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, have retaken several rebel-held areas in the surrounding Qalamoun Mountains.
On Wednesday, Iraqi forces advanced further in the area surrounding Mosul and were moving to retake Qaraqosh, a majority Christian town that was conquered by Isis in summer 2014.
Supported by US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers, they have managed to retake large parts of the city and its surrounding area.
