A rebel sentry with a blackened face told me to go only as far as AlUqaylah, twenty-five miles to the west: "it's not safe past there."
一个把脸涂成黑色的哨兵告诉我只能到布雷加以西25英里的阿克·亚拉,“再走就不安全了。”
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More fighters showed up, and some onlookers, too, until there were perhaps forty vehicles pulled up in front of the gate—the entirety of the force defending AlUqaylah.