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Dissident Aleppo rebels' commander: I will be among rebels everywhere until victory

 

In new statement by the former Revolutionary Military Council in Aleppo," Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Akaidi, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, said he will not give up fighting as he will be among rebels everywhere until the victory of Syrian people revolution.

Aqaidi who joined the Free Syrian Army after defecting from the Syrian army in early 2012, appeared in footage surfaced on the Internet addressing the Syrian opposition by saying ''stay in your hotels.''

The disappointed colonel has accused both the western-backed opposition and the International community by trading in the Syrians fate as well contributing in their bloodshed.

Rebels' concerns, within al-Aqidi, have dramatically mounted amid fears of imminent siege for their areas in Aleppo after the fall of Safeira and Azyziyah strategic towns by the Assad army, according to Zaman Alwasl sources.

The towns lie on a road the army said would be used to send in medicine and supplies to government-controlled areas of Aleppo, mired in a bloody stalemate for over a year. It is also the site of a chemical weapons installation under government control and cleared of equipment.

Rebel groups have become increasingly fractured, with Islamic extremists, including those linked to al-Qaida, analyst Ahmed Khlaif, based in Qameshli said to Zaman Alwasl, ''The rebel war-within pushed the armed opposition to lose Sfeira and perhaps more areas, as they lost before Khanaser town, Sfeira neighbor, with its strategic road for supplies and ammunition.''

The conflict in Syria, now more than 2-1/2-years old, has long been in stalemate but Assad's forces have been making slow advances in the center of the country and near the capital since they captured a strategic border town near Lebanon with the help of the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah.


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