(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces launched counter attack on regime army and allied militias in Aleppo city, rocking a checkpoint in the New Aleppo suburbs with an explosive-laden vehicle, activists said Thursday.
Abu Hisham Anas, a former member in Fateh al-Sham’s media office, confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl the continuation of the battle for Aleppo, promising the regime many unpleasant surprises.
The resistance in Aleppo launched the Great Epic Battle for Aleppo with the aim of breaking the siege on the eastern neighborhoods and opening a route to connect the eastern neighborhoods to Aleppo’s countryside.
The Jaish al-Fateh-led alliance rejected Russian demands that they withdraw from Aleppo by Friday evening.
"This is completely out of the question. We will not give up the city of Aleppo to the Russians and we won't surrender," Zakaria Malahifji of the Fastaqim rebel group told Reuters.
Russia's defense ministry said rebels and civilians would be allowed to leave the eastern opposition-held part of Aleppo and signaled it would extend a moratorium on air strikes inside the city.
However, Malahifji said there were no safe exit corridors, as Russia had stated.
"It's not true. Civilians and fighters are not leaving. Civilians are afraid of the regime, they don't trust it. And the fighters are not surrendering," he said.
The regime forces and its allies have besieged the eastern neighborhoods since the summer while the Russian and regime airplanes continue to bombard the neighborhoods indiscriminately
Also in Aleppo, the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday recaptured the border town of Akhtarin from the Islamic State, activist said.
The ISIS-run Amaq news agency said earlier Wednesday that the radical group fighters had taken control of Akhtarin town near the Turkish border, hours before the FSA fighters pushing ISIS out of the town.
Amaq said Tuesday that ISIS had taken control of 13 villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo city. The surprise advance came after almost two months of retreat since the beginning the Turkish military campaign, the Euphrates Shield, to expel ISIS from the border towns.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests -- which had erupted as part of the "Arab Spring" uprisings -- with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have been killed -- and millions displaced -- by the conflict, which pits the regime and its regional allies against several heavily-armed opposition groups. (With agencies)
Abu Hisham Anas, a former member in Fateh al-Sham’s media office, confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl the continuation of the battle for Aleppo, promising the regime many unpleasant surprises.
The resistance in Aleppo launched the Great Epic Battle for Aleppo with the aim of breaking the siege on the eastern neighborhoods and opening a route to connect the eastern neighborhoods to Aleppo’s countryside.
The Jaish al-Fateh-led alliance rejected Russian demands that they withdraw from Aleppo by Friday evening.
"This is completely out of the question. We will not give up the city of Aleppo to the Russians and we won't surrender," Zakaria Malahifji of the Fastaqim rebel group told Reuters.
Russia's defense ministry said rebels and civilians would be allowed to leave the eastern opposition-held part of Aleppo and signaled it would extend a moratorium on air strikes inside the city.
However, Malahifji said there were no safe exit corridors, as Russia had stated.
"It's not true. Civilians and fighters are not leaving. Civilians are afraid of the regime, they don't trust it. And the fighters are not surrendering," he said.
The regime forces and its allies have besieged the eastern neighborhoods since the summer while the Russian and regime airplanes continue to bombard the neighborhoods indiscriminately
Also in Aleppo, the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday recaptured the border town of Akhtarin from the Islamic State, activist said.
The ISIS-run Amaq news agency said earlier Wednesday that the radical group fighters had taken control of Akhtarin town near the Turkish border, hours before the FSA fighters pushing ISIS out of the town.
Amaq said Tuesday that ISIS had taken control of 13 villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo city. The surprise advance came after almost two months of retreat since the beginning the Turkish military campaign, the Euphrates Shield, to expel ISIS from the border towns.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests -- which had erupted as part of the "Arab Spring" uprisings -- with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have been killed -- and millions displaced -- by the conflict, which pits the regime and its regional allies against several heavily-armed opposition groups. (With agencies)
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