Syria

Fight for Syrian city of Aleppo is escalating

In the former million city of Aleppo have troops government and rebels again hard battles to be delivered. The army has cut off the only access road into the rebel-held district.

After an air RAID on Sunday, a man carries a wounded child in the hospital in the town of Kafr Hamra in North of Aleppo

Syrian rebels have launched a large-scale Offensive on the government-held district of the city of Aleppo. As an AFP told a Reporter, started the rebels, their attack early in the Morning on several fronts. The dividing line between the government-controlled West and the rebel-held East of the city was fiercely fought.

The Syrian Observatory for human rights reported the attack. “Opposition groups have launched a large-scale Offensive on four fronts against the government in the city of Aleppo, including the old town,” said the head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman. There was heavy fighting. However, the rebels were not yet come forward, because the military of President Bashar al-Assad are attacking the embattled district from the air.

Fighters of the rebels on Sunday in the vicinity of Aleppo in an attack on government troops

Information about fatalities in the Fighting were not available. However, there were again reports of civilians killed by rocket attacks by the rebels. State media reported that rebels had fired missiles on residential areas in the Western part of Aleppo.

Eight civilians were killed and 80 injured. According to the Observatory part of the city fell in the West, 300 bullets, there are at least five people had been killed. In the rubble of the concerned district residents collected their belongings, to find elsewhere a refuge.

Retaking failed

The rebel offensive came after the Syrian army had cut off the only remaining access road to the rebel areas in the East of Aleppo. Fighters of the Islamist group Failak al-sham and its allies, the Syrian Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front failed at the weekend, with the attempt to bring the road back under your control.

Destruction caused by air strikes on the rebel-held district of Kadi Askar on Friday

According to the Observatory have been killed in the Fighting 29 rebels. The UK-based Observatory obtains its information from a network of activists and Doctors in Syria. Your details are check for media mostly.

Around Aleppo, in the North-West of the country is particularly fierce, because a re-conquest of the former trade metropolis would be a special Triumph of Assad over the rebels.

Prior to the start of the Syrian civil war more than five years ago Aleppo was the largest city in the country. In Syria the government soldier to fight against various groups of insurgents and the extremist militia Islamic state (IS) in the East, their strongholds. Fights against the IS, are excluded from repeated fire breaks in principle, but also the other parties to the conflict can hardly stop.

stu/SC (afp, dpa, rtr)