(Zaman Al Wasl)- The artillery of Syrian resistance factions has pounded a regime military complex on Saturday in the second day of major offensive to break Aleppo siege.
Jaish al-Fateh, an alliance of rebels and Islamist groups, has been pressing to seize a strategic supply route links between Khanaser town and Aleppo city as the attack main object is to recapture a military complex lost to regime favor last on September.
On Saturday, the resistance groups had taken the village of Manyan west of Aleppo.
Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement, said Jaish al-Fateh has also captured the 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.
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.
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.
Jaish al-Fateh, an alliance of rebels and Islamist groups, has been pressing to seize a strategic supply route links between Khanaser town and Aleppo city as the attack main object is to recapture a military complex lost to regime favor last on September.
On Saturday, the resistance groups had taken the village of Manyan west of Aleppo.
Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement, said Jaish al-Fateh has also captured the 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.
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.
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.
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