DHAKA: Al-Qaida’s Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken control of a border crossing on the line dividing Syria from the Israel occupied Golan Heights.

A group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.

The fighters, who have vowed to ‘liberate’ the area, captured the Quneitra post on the Syrian side from forces loyal to president Bashar Assad after fierce clashes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The crossing is monitored by the United Nations, which oversees traffic between the two enemy countries but the distance between the two warring adversaries’ posts is some 200 meters.

BDST: 2032 HRS, AUG 27, 2014