At atomic 40 Syrian soldiers and several Iraqis accept been dead in the western Iraqi arena of Anbar, admiral in Baghdad say.
They were a part of a accumulation who had fled beyond the bound into Iraq at the weekend to escape an advance by anti-government rebels.
They were getting apprenticed aback to the bound if they were attacked by anonymous gunmen, admiral said.
Syria has apparent two years of battle in which some 70,000 humans accept died.
Hundreds of bags of refugees accept fled to neighbouring countries as armament loyal to Admiral Bashar al-Assad action those who argue his rule.
'Near-total control'
The accumulation of Syrian soldiers and government advisers had entered Iraq through the Yaarubiyeh bound in the arctic Nineveh arena over the weekend, as anti-government rebels launched an advance on the area.
They were getting taken to the al-Waleed bound bridge added south in Anbar if they were ambushed at Akashat, a chief Iraqi official told Reuters.
"Gunmen set up an ambuscade and dead 40 of them, additional some Iraqi soldiers who were attention the convoy," he added.
The character of the gunmen is not known.
They appeared to accept been adorable for the assault, accepting with them roadside bombs, automated weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, admiral said.
Iraq and Syria allotment a 600km (372 mile) border, and the government in Baghdad has generally bidding affair that the abandon in Syria could discharge over into its own territory.
Anbar is a arena bedeviled by Sunni Muslims who accept been agitation for added than two months adjoin the Shia-led government they allege of aggravating to marginalise them.
The arena has apparent the accumulation of the Free Iraqi Army, a accumulation aboveboard acknowledging its adolescent Sunnis in the insubordinate Free Syrian Army which is angry the government of Admiral Bashar al-Assad, whose own Alawite camp is an adjunct of Shia Islam.
Meanwhile, in Syria itself, the rebels are appear to accept taken the arctic city-limits of Raqqa; in what would be one of their better victories in the two-year conflict.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels had "near-total control" of Raqqa afterwards canicule of angry fighting.
Video footage showed association antibacterial a bronze of Hafez Assad, the antecedent admiral and ancestor of the accepted Admiral Assad.
Raqqa has been a ambush for hundreds of bags of Syrians who fled the abandon in added locations of the country.
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