'Fiercest' Fighting in Syria's Aleppo Since Mid-2012

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Syrian troops battled rebels around a military intelligence base in Aleppo in what a monitoring group said Saturday was the fiercest fighting in the northern metropolis since mid-2012.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said the overnight clashes were "the fiercest since the fighting began in Aleppo and the closest yet to the intelligence base in the Zahra neighborhood."

In an email, the Syrian Revolution General Commission, an activist network on the ground, said government aircraft "opened fire with heavy machine guns on the Al-Leyramun neighborhood, and the outskirts of the air force intelligence base."

The Observatory said there had been casualties on both sides and civilians had fled the area.

Government aircraft bombed rebel-held districts of the city throughout Friday and into Saturday, killing four rebels in the Rashidun district in the east of the city.

Islamist rebels shelled several government-held neighborhoods, killing 10 people, five of them children, the Observatory said.

Rebels seized a big swathe of Aleppo in a major offensive in mid-2012 but the front line has since remained largely static.

Comments 2
Thumb cedre 12 April 2014, 21:06

wasn't bashar supposed to retake the city in few days ?
How come his troops struggling even with help from Lebanese, Iraqi, Iranian shias and ISIS ?

Default-user-icon Abo Fatima (Guest) 13 April 2014, 01:58

the Syrian army from a long time ago re ability of Aleppo and other but to the presence of armed groups and terrorists. Between the innocent among the homes of families of children and women