Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold their weapon as they stand near a tank in Tel Hasel, Aleppo province after capturing it from rebelsBy Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian forces went on the offensive on Saturday against rebels positioned alongside an enormous freeway linking the capital with the coast, rebels mentioned, a strategic street that’s possible for use to extract chemical weapons from the united states. The road passes through the mountainous house of Qalamoun, roughly 50 km (30 miles) north of Damascus, a area that stretches along the Lebanese border and is one among Syria's most heavily militarized districts. Diplomats say Syrian authorities have identified the highway north from Damascus against Homs and the coast as the most popular route to transport chemical agents under a U.S.-Russian accord to eliminate them from the usa's protracted civil conflict. Observers expect the subsequent big battle in Syria to middle on the Qalamoun space, inflicting a huge exodus of refugees and stirring up anger in neighborhood Lebanon as Shi'ite Lebanese Hezbollah fighters take part within the combating.