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Clashes in regime-held areas, senior Jaish al-Islam commander killed

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance announced on Sunday that it began targeting regime and pro-regime militia positions in the 3000 apartment project in the strategic al-Hamadaniya neighborhood with artillery and missiles.

Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said that the Syrian resistance entered a phase of urban warfare with the regime forces and supporting shabiha groups, after a number of infiltration groups entered the western neighborhoods of the city at dawn on Sunday.

A field source from the Syrian resistance confirmed in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl, that a number of regime force fighters were killed during clashes that continued throughout Sunday morning in the western part of New Aleppo neighborhood.

The source indicated that the groups that infiltrated the aforementioned neighborhood managed to withdraw after they succeeded in the mission assigned to them. They were tasked with scaring the regime force members and its militias. The source confirmed that many regime force members and militia members deserted their positions following the operation.

Other groups within the Syrian resistance factions started firing warning shots at the military academy in anticipation of the start of that phase of the fight. In the same context, Jund al-Sham faction announced the killing and wounding of dozens of regime force members inside the 3000 apartment project due to its targeting with heavy weapons.

A well informed source confirmed that the military commander of Jaish al-Islam in northern Syria Ahmad Sindet was killed last night by an air raid strike targeting him while he was in Minyan front in Aleppo’s western countryside participating in the Great Epic Battle of Aleppo.

In a related context, Fateh al-Sham Front published via its official sites a number of pictures of its leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani in one of the operation rooms. Unofficial sources spoke of al-Julani leading the Great Epic Battle of Aleppo himself, but Zaman al-Wasl was unable to confirm this information.

The Syrian resistance factions that joined the Jaish al-Fateh operation room officially named the current battle as the Conquest of the Martyr Abu Omar Saraqib. Abu Omar Saraqib was the commander of the previous battle to break the siege of Aleppo, and he was killed in early October by an international alliance targeted airstrike.

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.

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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