On 6 August, the Allies launched an offensive in an effort to try to break the deadlock, during which the 15th Battalion attacked the Abdel Rahman Bair heights, which was known to the Australians as "Hill 971", before later supporting the 14th Battalion's attack on "Hill 60".
"Patience is a virtue; Syrian Army launches an offensive in Al-Quneitra".
Heavy hints that it means to launch an offensive in South Waziristan, a Talibanised tribal area adjoining the province, have already caused an estimated 10,000 to flee it.
As flights continued into the summer, the rebels also opened an offensive in that city — a battle that soon bogged down.
There has been speculation that the military is planning an offensive in North Waziristan, a haven for the Taliban and operatives of Al Qaeda, and some analysts said that the attack could have been meant as a warning against military action.
In September, rebels launched an offensive in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, an ancient town that stood for centuries as the proud legacy of all Syrians.
Under pressure from the United States, the Pakistani Army in 2009 carried out an offensive in Swat in the northwest, and a year later in South Waziristan in the mountainous tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.
Hochschild glosses the implicit threat here: a commander who hesitated during an offensive in Córdoba two months earlier had been shot as a Fascist spy.
BEIRUT, July 26 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels say they have overrun army positions in the north and south of the country this week, including an offensive in which a rights monitoring group said 51 soldiers were executed.
Also on Saturday, British and Afghan forces carried on with military operations intended to lay the groundwork for a planned offensive in Marja, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province.
