A car bomb has exploded at the main entrance to Syria's rebel-held Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Turkey, wounding 12 people, a monitoring group says.
"A car bomb hit the main gateway to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The group said at least 12 people were hurt in the blast, but no one was killed in the attack, the second such car bomb to target the crossing area.
On February 11, one exploded in the area that lies between the Turkish and Syrian control posts and killed 13 people, among them three Turks.
Elsewhere in Syria, loyalist troops seized control of parts of a town located on the strategic road linking Damascus to the international airport, the Observatory said.
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Clashes pitting rebels against troops raged on in the town of Shabaa, where fighting on Monday killed at least 11 opposition fighters.
State news agency SANA said loyalists "seized control last night of the town of Shabaa, after a special operation that was speedy and surgical, and which was aimed at capturing the most dangerous terrorist groups there".
Lebanese channel Al-Manar, the mouthpiece of President Bashar al-Assad's ally Hezbollah, said loyalists found "a 500-metre tunnel parallel to the Damascus airport road, that the terrorists were using to hide and fire... from".
Al-Manar screened footage it said was taken inside Shabaa.
It also showed footage of the advancing army, whose tanks fired at buildings in the town.
The Syrian army has struggled for months to stamp out rebels positioned around Damascus.
The Observatory also reported that one of two pilots who were inside a Syrian helicopter shot down by Turkey on Monday had been killed.
The group cited videos circulated by opposition fighters showing rebels surrounding the dead body of one of the men who had parachuted from the helicopter as it was shot down along the border between Syria and Turkey.
Turkey said it downed the helicopter because it had violated its airspace. The aircraft landed inside Syrian territory.
