(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels said Wednesday they have killed more than 150 regime troops and Iranian fighters in the ongoing clashes in the northern province of Aleppo as regime keeps the noose tighten on rebel-held areas of the city.
Fatah Aleppo Operation Room, key rebel alliance, has cut the main supply route for regime army southwestern the city in al-Ramousa district, killing at least 30 troops near al-Ameriya neighborhood, according to activists.
Clashes have also taken place in al-Zahraaa and al-Khalediya neighborhoods.
Scores of regime fighters were also killed in the last 24 hours in al-Mallah Farms that overlooks on the strategic Castello Road, the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Regime army and allied militia fighters seized Castello Road, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which Bashar al-Assad has pledged to recapture.
Aleppo has been a major battlefield of Syria's war since rebels swept into it in the summer of 2012, and an opposition defeat there would mark their biggest setback in five years of conflict.
Around 300,000 people live in rebel-held eastern Aleppo and for months their lifeline has been a highway leading north from the city known as the Castello Road.
-Al-Zinki investigates child beheading-
Nour al-Din al-Zinki Movement that has received U.S. military backing said it is investigating the beheading of a child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man who activists identified as a member of the rebel group.
Images of a fighter cutting off the boy's head with a knife matched some of the worst brutalities committed by the jihadist Islamic State group, which has killed hundreds of captives in Syria and neighboring Iraq in the last three years.
Before being killed, the boy is shown on the back of a truck being taunted by several men who say he is from a Palestinian faction which fights in Aleppo in support of Bashar al-Assad.
"This is a prisoner from the Quds Brigade. They don't have men any more so they've sent us children today," one of the men says. "These are your dogs, Bashar, children of the Quds brigade," says another.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city and pre-war commercial hub, and the surrounding area near the Turkish border, have comprised a major theater in the war, divided between areas of government and rebel control.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it was investigating the incident.
On Wednesday, a State Department official said the United States does not publicly identify the Syrian opposition groups that receive U.S. support.
In a statement, Nour al-Din al-Zinki denounced what it described as "the human rights abuses that were shared on social media sites," which did not represent its policies or practices.
It said it had detained the individuals who were involved in the incident and formed a committee to investigate. "All individuals who undertook the violation have been detained and turned over to the committee for investigations in accordance with the relevant legal standards."
In an online statement, the Quds Brigade denied the 12-year-old child was a fighter. It said he was from a poor family living in the Handarat Camp area north-east of Aleppo, which had fallen under the control of rebels.
"The child was ill, evidenced by the presence of a drip in his hand," the statement said. The child in the video appears to have bandages round his waist and one of his legs, and a plastic medical tube near his arm.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said it had written to the secretary-general of the United Nations asking him to condemn all crimes towards the Syrian people and Palestinian people in Syria. The letter asked the U.N. to punish states which support rebel groups in Syria. (With Reuters)
Fatah Aleppo Operation Room, key rebel alliance, has cut the main supply route for regime army southwestern the city in al-Ramousa district, killing at least 30 troops near al-Ameriya neighborhood, according to activists.
Clashes have also taken place in al-Zahraaa and al-Khalediya neighborhoods.
Scores of regime fighters were also killed in the last 24 hours in al-Mallah Farms that overlooks on the strategic Castello Road, the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Regime army and allied militia fighters seized Castello Road, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which Bashar al-Assad has pledged to recapture.
Aleppo has been a major battlefield of Syria's war since rebels swept into it in the summer of 2012, and an opposition defeat there would mark their biggest setback in five years of conflict.
Around 300,000 people live in rebel-held eastern Aleppo and for months their lifeline has been a highway leading north from the city known as the Castello Road.
-Al-Zinki investigates child beheading-
Nour al-Din al-Zinki Movement that has received U.S. military backing said it is investigating the beheading of a child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man who activists identified as a member of the rebel group.
Images of a fighter cutting off the boy's head with a knife matched some of the worst brutalities committed by the jihadist Islamic State group, which has killed hundreds of captives in Syria and neighboring Iraq in the last three years.
Before being killed, the boy is shown on the back of a truck being taunted by several men who say he is from a Palestinian faction which fights in Aleppo in support of Bashar al-Assad.
"This is a prisoner from the Quds Brigade. They don't have men any more so they've sent us children today," one of the men says. "These are your dogs, Bashar, children of the Quds brigade," says another.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city and pre-war commercial hub, and the surrounding area near the Turkish border, have comprised a major theater in the war, divided between areas of government and rebel control.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it was investigating the incident.
On Wednesday, a State Department official said the United States does not publicly identify the Syrian opposition groups that receive U.S. support.
In a statement, Nour al-Din al-Zinki denounced what it described as "the human rights abuses that were shared on social media sites," which did not represent its policies or practices.
It said it had detained the individuals who were involved in the incident and formed a committee to investigate. "All individuals who undertook the violation have been detained and turned over to the committee for investigations in accordance with the relevant legal standards."
In an online statement, the Quds Brigade denied the 12-year-old child was a fighter. It said he was from a poor family living in the Handarat Camp area north-east of Aleppo, which had fallen under the control of rebels.
"The child was ill, evidenced by the presence of a drip in his hand," the statement said. The child in the video appears to have bandages round his waist and one of his legs, and a plastic medical tube near his arm.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said it had written to the secretary-general of the United Nations asking him to condemn all crimes towards the Syrian people and Palestinian people in Syria. The letter asked the U.N. to punish states which support rebel groups in Syria. (With Reuters)
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