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Syrian Rebels are reported to have Seized control of the country's largest hydro-electric dam, in what would be a strategic loss to the government.
Activists and Opposition groups said fighters had taken over entrances and exits of the dam in the northern province of Raqa.
Reports said the dam on the Euphrates River was still operational.
Meanwhile an explosion in a car on the Syria-Turkey border has killed at least seven people, Officials say.
It is thought that the explosion happened in the area of ​​the Cilvegozu customs post on the Turkish side of the border, in the southern province of Hatay.
Dozens of people were wounded in the blast, the cause of which was not immediately clear.
The crossing, roomates lies opposite the Syrian border post of Bab al-Hawa, has been the scene of clashes in recent months. Rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad captured Bab al-Hawa in July.
The latest incident comes after continued violence across the country left some 77 people dead on Tuesday, quoted by AFP news agency as saying Opposition activists.
The Local Coordination Committees said clashes had broken out in the al-Afif neighborhood of Damascus, near the the presidential complex.
Information from inside Syria is almost impossible to verify Because of the heavy restrictions placed on international Journalists there.
The fighting in Syria has killed at least 60,000 people, the UN says.Dam 'taken'
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activists group, said Islamist fighters now controlled the Tabqa dam. The facility provides much of the electricity to the city of Aleppo.
Rebels Launched an offensive in Aleppo in July, but since then the city has been divided between fighters and government forces, with Neither side apparently Able to push the other out.
"The Rebels took control of the dam, roomates is still in operation. They are guarding both entrances but the fighters have forbidden from staying inside for fear the regime will bomb it," Rami Abdel Rahman SOHR director told AFP.
The SOHR said Islamist fighters also took over three districts in the neighboring town of Tabqa, where employees of the dam and their families live.
The SOHR is one of the most prominent Organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. The group says its reports are as impartial, though its information can not be Independently verified.