Syria rebels to capture another military Air Base after Mennegh

After liberating Mennegh Military Airport, Syrian rebels headed Quweiris Military Air base north Aleppo to complete the liberation process and to implement their own No-fly zone, activists said 

Fierce clashes are happening now around Quweiris air base, Activists say. The regime army have pounded the rebels by Mortar bombs since early morning.

Analysts to Zaman Alwasl assured the Free Syrian Army intention to impose its own n0-fly zone where controlling the main Military Air bases considered as a key supply route north of the city of Aleppo.

Two days ago, The liberation battle of Mennegh had started with 2 suicide bombers carried with him six tons of explosives in an armored vehicle and detonated it at the entrance of the air base, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

 Activists reported that 'the Islamic State of Iraq and sham' and other rebel groups had taken almost full control of the military air base.

 ''The ISIS and its allies destroyed 4 tanks, took over several buildings and have taken captive several officers and regular soldiers,'' the observatory said.

 Clashes took place inside the airport, causing losses on both sides, and ended with the near full control of the rebels over Mennegh, activists reported.

The reported capture of the Mennegh Military Airport, situated on the road between Aleppo and the Turkish city of Gaziantep, after an eight-month siege, marks an important symbolic victory for the opposition, following a string of defeats to President Bashar al-Assad's forces in central Syria, the Telegraph said.

"The airport has been fully liberated. The remnants of the Assad gangs are now being chased," said a statement issued by nine brigades that took part in the operation, including the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and the hardline Islamist Tawhid Brigades.

Assad's forces tried last month to prevent the fall of the airport by launching an armoured offensive from Aleppo, backed by Hezbollah guerrillas based in two Shiite villages near the city, to drive the rebels from the northern rural region, according to opposition sources in the north.

Meanwhile, More than 150,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to the U.N.'s recent estimate.