SYRIAN troops took more ground near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights yesterday despite Israel’s missile attack on Damascus the night before.

State news agency Sana reported that the Syrian army and volunteer militia captured the Shihab hill in the south-western part of the Damascus countryside from al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front terrorists.

The hill overlooks the Nusra-occupied town of Mughr al-Mir and the only road to Beit Jinn village, a Nusra stronghold approximately 12 miles from the Golan Heights border.