BEIRUT: Syrian rebels seized a guard post on the Jordanian border on Wednesday after a month of fierce fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“Rebel fighters took control of the Hajanah border battalion post near the city of Daraa after laying siege to it for two months and fierce clashes around it lasting a month,” the NGO said. Some of the border guard battalion had withdrawn, but it was not yet clear how many people had been killed or wounded in its capture.

The border post is adjacent to an old customs post seized by rebels days earlier. With its capture, opposition forces now control a ribbon of territory along the border from outside Daraa to the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Elsewhere, the Observatory reported fierce fighting in Damascus province between rebels and troops backed by pro-regime militias and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

The clashes were taking place around Husseiniyah and Al-Thiyabiyeh, south of the capital and near the site Sayyida Zeinab, the group said.