Dozens of heavily armed Philippine peacekeepers defied Syrian rebels on Friday in a Golan Heights standoff, hours after the fighters took hostage 43 Fijian soldiers there, the Filipi**s' commander said. Seventy-five Filipi** troops were defending two fortified posts in the UN-patrolled zone after armed groups surrounded them on Thursday and demanded they give up their *******, Colonel Roberto Ancan told reporters in Manila. "I (would) just like to emphasise our troops are well-armed, they are well-trained... they are well-disciplined warrior peacekeepers." The military said the soldiers were occupying UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) posts about four kilometres (2.5 miles) apart in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel that was created after a 1974 ceasefire. The UN earlier said 81 Filipi** peacekeepers were surrounded, but Ancan said there were only 40 Filipi**s in one post and 35 in the other.
08-29-2014, 08:14 PM
75 Philippine UN peacekeepers defy Syria rebels
Dozens of heavily armed Philippine peacekeepers defied Syrian rebels on Friday in a Golan Heights standoff, hours after the fighters took hostage 43 Fijian soldiers there, the Filipi**s' commander said. Seventy-five Filipi** troops were defending two fortified posts in the UN-patrolled zone after armed groups surrounded them on Thursday and demanded they give up their *******, Colonel Roberto Ancan told reporters in Manila. "I (would) just like to emphasise our troops are well-armed, they are well-trained... they are well-disciplined warrior peacekeepers." The military said the soldiers were occupying UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) posts about four kilometres (2.5 miles) apart in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel that was created after a 1974 ceasefire. The UN earlier said 81 Filipi** peacekeepers were surrounded, but Ancan said there were only 40 Filipi**s in one post and 35 in the other.
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