(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels blew up an army building in government-held Aleppo city on Thursday using tunnel bombs tactics that left huge explosion and dozens of army troops killed.
Fatah Aleppo rebel group claimed responsibility for the bombing, posting a video of the explosion.
The location struck was a police headquarters being used by army and allied militias.
The bombing was part of rebels strategy to to unleash major devastation in regime bastions by hand-dug tunnels, in tactics reminiscent of the battlefields of the First World War.
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.
Meanwhile, Anas al-Abdah, the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians were killed in air strikes north of Manbij on Tuesday, a day after it said 21 civilians were killed in a northern district of the besieged Islamic State-held city.
Al-Abdah said the strikes should be halted while the incidents were investigated, according to a statement issued late on Wednesday, and warned that the killing of civilians by the U.S.-led air campaign would "prove to be a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations". (With agencies)
Fatah Aleppo rebel group claimed responsibility for the bombing, posting a video of the explosion.
The location struck was a police headquarters being used by army and allied militias.
The bombing was part of rebels strategy to to unleash major devastation in regime bastions by hand-dug tunnels, in tactics reminiscent of the battlefields of the First World War.
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.
Meanwhile, Anas al-Abdah, the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians were killed in air strikes north of Manbij on Tuesday, a day after it said 21 civilians were killed in a northern district of the besieged Islamic State-held city.
Al-Abdah said the strikes should be halted while the incidents were investigated, according to a statement issued late on Wednesday, and warned that the killing of civilians by the U.S.-led air campaign would "prove to be a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations". (With agencies)
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