(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition activists say a push by an alliance of rebel groups to open a new front with regime forces in Aleppo has failed.
The activists and the websites reported Monday that the rebels retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the southwestern outskirts of the city.
Fierce fighting began Sunday and lasted for hours around key army positions at the cement factory. Aleppo has become the focal point of the war.
Cement Factory is considered one of the most important military fortification for regime army and its militias and the regime uses the factory as military barracks. The factory includes huge building on which regime placed snipers, machine guns and spread mines in its surrounding making it difficult for any faction to advance.
Cement Factory and Jamiyet al-Zahraa were heavily bombed by warplanes which targeted Syrian resistance locations forcing them to withdraw.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 35 rebels were killed in the fighting.
Aleppo: Regime suffers as main supply route blocked by resistance forces
Another 327 civilians, including 126 children, have been killed in fighting in Aleppo province, according to the Observatory, which monitors both sides of the conflict and gathers information from a network of activists inside Syria. The toll includes 126 people killed by rebel shelling of government-held parts of Aleppo city.
Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between itsregime -held west and rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, has intensified in recent weeks causing hundreds of deaths and depriving many civilians of power, water and vital supplies.
Rebel groups then attacked the army's positions in a cement factory on the city's southwest, adjacent to the mouth of a corridor into opposition-held east Aleppo that rebels had opened up a week ago, breaking a government siege.
Aleppo is one of the bastions of the rebellion to oust Bashar al-Assad, whose army is backed on the ground by Shi'ite Muslim militias from neighboring countries and from the skies by Russian air strikes. (With agencies)
The activists and the websites reported Monday that the rebels retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the southwestern outskirts of the city.
Fierce fighting began Sunday and lasted for hours around key army positions at the cement factory. Aleppo has become the focal point of the war.
Cement Factory is considered one of the most important military fortification for regime army and its militias and the regime uses the factory as military barracks. The factory includes huge building on which regime placed snipers, machine guns and spread mines in its surrounding making it difficult for any faction to advance.
Cement Factory and Jamiyet al-Zahraa were heavily bombed by warplanes which targeted Syrian resistance locations forcing them to withdraw.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 35 rebels were killed in the fighting.
Aleppo: Regime suffers as main supply route blocked by resistance forces
Another 327 civilians, including 126 children, have been killed in fighting in Aleppo province, according to the Observatory, which monitors both sides of the conflict and gathers information from a network of activists inside Syria. The toll includes 126 people killed by rebel shelling of government-held parts of Aleppo city.
Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between itsregime -held west and rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, has intensified in recent weeks causing hundreds of deaths and depriving many civilians of power, water and vital supplies.
Rebel groups then attacked the army's positions in a cement factory on the city's southwest, adjacent to the mouth of a corridor into opposition-held east Aleppo that rebels had opened up a week ago, breaking a government siege.
Aleppo is one of the bastions of the rebellion to oust Bashar al-Assad, whose army is backed on the ground by Shi'ite Muslim militias from neighboring countries and from the skies by Russian air strikes. (With agencies)
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