Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria and another rebel group have taken control of a key military base in the northern province of Idlib, activists say.
Members of al-Nusra Front, supported by those from Jund al-Aqsa, captured Wadi al-Deif base after launching a fierce offensive on Sunday morning.
One activist group said at least 31 soldiers and 12 rebels were killed.
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had until now managed to repel a number of assaults on the facility.
Situated outside the town of Maarat al-Numan and next to the country's main north-south motorway, it has been surrounded since 2012.
'Completely liberated'A Twitter account run by al-Nusra declared on Monday that "Wadi al-Deif was completely liberated" and said the group was now removing mines.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group, also reported that the base and surrounding areas had been seized .
The Syrian state news agency only said that the army had killed several "terrorists" in the area.
The capture of Wadi al-Deif comes a day after al-Nusra fighters took over seven checkpoints around it and the nearby base of Hamidiya.
Rebels are now believed to control much of the countryside of Idlib province, while government forces dominate the provincial capital.
The Syrian Observatory said al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa had used tanks and other heavy weapons which they captured from the Western-backed Syrian Revolutionary Front last month.
The defeat of the SRF was seen as a blow to US efforts to build a moderate rebel force to counter jihadist groups like al-Nusra and the rival Islamic State (IS), which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Elsewhere in Syria on Sunday, government forces seized the al-Malah area, north of Aleppo, threatening rebel supply lines into the city.
Some 200,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad erupted in 2011. Another 3.2 million people have fled Syria and 7.6 million have been displaced inside the country.
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