(Zaman AlWasl)-
Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to
advancing Syrian regime forces, a rebel official said Monday, as the
army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held
enclave.
"Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered fallen," the official with the Jabha Shamiya group told Reuters, speaking from Turkey.
Zaman’s local reporter said a-Tahan and al-Qaterhji neighborhoods were also captured by regime forces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition group, reported heavy clashes on Monday morning in al-Shaar.
The Syrian army and its allies advanced into al-Shaar, capturing some positions in the area, it said.
Syria’s leading rescuing group, the Civil Defense said 24 people lost their lives on Sunday in regime air strikes.
Rebel groups told the United States they will not leave Aleppo after Moscow called for talks with Washington over a full withdrawal of rebel fighters from the city's besieged eastern districts, a rebel official told Reuters on Sunday.
Speaking from Turkey, senior rebel official Zakaria Malahifji said the message was delivered to U.S. officials in contacts on Saturday following the statement from Russia, Bashar al-Assad's most powerful ally.
"Our response to the Americans was as follows: we cannot leave our city, our homes, to the mercenary militias that the regime has mobilized in Aleppo," said Malahifji, the head of the political office of an Aleppo rebel group.
The Russian-backed Syrian army has captured large areas of eastern Aleppo from rebels in the latest phase of its campaign to take back all of Aleppo. The Syrian government has also been supported by Shi'ite militias from countries including Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
The loss of east Aleppo -- a rebel stronghold since 2012 -- would be the biggest blow to Syria's opposition in more than five years.
Scott Craig, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, told the BBC that there were 250,000 people in need of assistance in eastern Aleppo, 100,000 of them children. Food supplies are gone, he said.
"The situation on the ground in eastern Aleppo is almost beyond the imagination of those of us who are not there," Craig said.
"Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered fallen," the official with the Jabha Shamiya group told Reuters, speaking from Turkey.
Zaman’s local reporter said a-Tahan and al-Qaterhji neighborhoods were also captured by regime forces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition group, reported heavy clashes on Monday morning in al-Shaar.
The Syrian army and its allies advanced into al-Shaar, capturing some positions in the area, it said.
Syria’s leading rescuing group, the Civil Defense said 24 people lost their lives on Sunday in regime air strikes.
Rebel groups told the United States they will not leave Aleppo after Moscow called for talks with Washington over a full withdrawal of rebel fighters from the city's besieged eastern districts, a rebel official told Reuters on Sunday.
Speaking from Turkey, senior rebel official Zakaria Malahifji said the message was delivered to U.S. officials in contacts on Saturday following the statement from Russia, Bashar al-Assad's most powerful ally.
"Our response to the Americans was as follows: we cannot leave our city, our homes, to the mercenary militias that the regime has mobilized in Aleppo," said Malahifji, the head of the political office of an Aleppo rebel group.
The Russian-backed Syrian army has captured large areas of eastern Aleppo from rebels in the latest phase of its campaign to take back all of Aleppo. The Syrian government has also been supported by Shi'ite militias from countries including Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
The loss of east Aleppo -- a rebel stronghold since 2012 -- would be the biggest blow to Syria's opposition in more than five years.
Scott Craig, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, told the BBC that there were 250,000 people in need of assistance in eastern Aleppo, 100,000 of them children. Food supplies are gone, he said.
"The situation on the ground in eastern Aleppo is almost beyond the imagination of those of us who are not there," Craig said.
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