(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces recaptured a ground lost to regime forces early Thursday in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said.
Regime forces backed by allied militias launched counter attack to repel opposition forces from al-Ramouseh and a strategic military complex they seized last Friday, where they broke one-month-old Aleppo siege.
Advances by warring sides in the last month, which resulted in a siege of opposition-held neighborhoods and the severing of a major route into regime areas of control, have choked off supplies and raised fears of the encirclement of the entire civilian population.
Syria's largest city pre-war has been divided into government and rebel areas of control for much of the conflict, and has been the focus of escalating violence since a ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow in February crumbled. Its capture would be a major prize for Bashar al-Assad.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said bombardments by both sides have killed more than 120 people in the city since the start of August.
The siege worsened an already dire humanitarian situation in eastern Aleppo, residents and doctors said.
Hospitals were having to cope with dozens of wounded arriving at the same time, he said, with only 35 doctors for the whole of east Aleppo's population at least 250,000 people.
The United Nations has called for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, and is pushing for a resumption of peace talks that have failed to end the five-year conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced. (With Reuters)
Regime forces backed by allied militias launched counter attack to repel opposition forces from al-Ramouseh and a strategic military complex they seized last Friday, where they broke one-month-old Aleppo siege.
Advances by warring sides in the last month, which resulted in a siege of opposition-held neighborhoods and the severing of a major route into regime areas of control, have choked off supplies and raised fears of the encirclement of the entire civilian population.
Syria's largest city pre-war has been divided into government and rebel areas of control for much of the conflict, and has been the focus of escalating violence since a ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow in February crumbled. Its capture would be a major prize for Bashar al-Assad.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said bombardments by both sides have killed more than 120 people in the city since the start of August.
The siege worsened an already dire humanitarian situation in eastern Aleppo, residents and doctors said.
Hospitals were having to cope with dozens of wounded arriving at the same time, he said, with only 35 doctors for the whole of east Aleppo's population at least 250,000 people.
The United Nations has called for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, and is pushing for a resumption of peace talks that have failed to end the five-year conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced. (With Reuters)
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