The Syrian government is on the offensive.<br/> <br />New video from Syrian state TV shows government forces battling Islamist rebels in the historic Christian town of Sadad.<br/> <br />Insurgents stormed the town a day earlier, putting residents on edge.<br/> <br />Sources on both sides say the rebels also broke into Sadad's hospital to seize medical supplies.<br/> <br />Sadad sits strategically between the northern city of Homs and the capital of Damascus in the south.<br/> <br />So far fighting in the country's two-and-a-half-year conflict has left more than 100,000 people dead and millions displaced.
