(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance factions on Saturday took new ground from regime army west of the battleground city of Aleppo, marking the second day of a large-scale attack to break siege on opposition-held neighborhoods, commander said.
Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement, said Jaish al-Fateh took Family House building and three blocks in Jameyyat al-Zahraa district that was pounded by 20 rebel-made rockets.
On Friday, Jaish al-Fateh controlled Dhahiyat al-Assad suburb west of Aleppo city, killing more than 50 regime soldiers and allied militants. Also on Friday 10 Iraqi Shiite militants were taken captive.
The resistance forces began their major attack with heavy shelling of regime-held areas after a weeks-long Russian-backed offensive against the besieged eastern districts.
The rebels aim to break a siege that regime and allied Shiite militias imposed this summer with air support from the Russian air force. The rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo have been subjected to a fierce bombardment since the army declared an offensive to capture the area last month.
"There is a general call-up for anyone who can bear arms," a senior official in the Levant Front rebel group, which fights under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner, told Reuters. "The preparatory shelling started this morning," he added.
Grad rockets were launched at Aleppo's Nairab air base, said Zakaria Malahiji, head of the political office of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim rebel group, adding that it was going to be "a big battle" with all the insurgent groups there participating.
Heavy rebel bombardment, with more than 150 rockets and shells, struck districts on the southwest of the city, the Observatory reported. It said more than 15 civilians had been killed and 100 wounded by rebel shelling of government-held western Aleppo. State media reported that five civilians were killed.
The Observatory also said that Grad surface-to-surface rockets had struck Nairab air base and also locations around the Hmeimim air base, near Latakia.
Syria's war, now in its sixth year, pits Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias from neighboring states, against mostly Sunni rebels including groups supported by Turkey, Gulf monarchies and the United States.
Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before the war, has for years been split between a government-held western sector and the rebel-held east, which the army and its allies managed to put under siege this summer. (With Reuters)
Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement, said Jaish al-Fateh took Family House building and three blocks in Jameyyat al-Zahraa district that was pounded by 20 rebel-made rockets.
On Friday, Jaish al-Fateh controlled Dhahiyat al-Assad suburb west of Aleppo city, killing more than 50 regime soldiers and allied militants. Also on Friday 10 Iraqi Shiite militants were taken captive.
The resistance forces began their major attack with heavy shelling of regime-held areas after a weeks-long Russian-backed offensive against the besieged eastern districts.
The rebels aim to break a siege that regime and allied Shiite militias imposed this summer with air support from the Russian air force. The rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo have been subjected to a fierce bombardment since the army declared an offensive to capture the area last month.
"There is a general call-up for anyone who can bear arms," a senior official in the Levant Front rebel group, which fights under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner, told Reuters. "The preparatory shelling started this morning," he added.
Grad rockets were launched at Aleppo's Nairab air base, said Zakaria Malahiji, head of the political office of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim rebel group, adding that it was going to be "a big battle" with all the insurgent groups there participating.
Heavy rebel bombardment, with more than 150 rockets and shells, struck districts on the southwest of the city, the Observatory reported. It said more than 15 civilians had been killed and 100 wounded by rebel shelling of government-held western Aleppo. State media reported that five civilians were killed.
The Observatory also said that Grad surface-to-surface rockets had struck Nairab air base and also locations around the Hmeimim air base, near Latakia.
Syria's war, now in its sixth year, pits Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias from neighboring states, against mostly Sunni rebels including groups supported by Turkey, Gulf monarchies and the United States.
Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before the war, has for years been split between a government-held western sector and the rebel-held east, which the army and its allies managed to put under siege this summer. (With Reuters)
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