Rebels recapture base 80, hours after of being seized by Assad troops

Rebels recaptured again a military base after hours of being seized by Assad troops yesterday near Aleppo, activists say.

The battle keep going on until this moment, sources said,  rebels got more enforcement what enable them to get back the military base.

Heavy fighting erupted in the early hours of Friday around Base 80 outside Syria’s main northern city.

A fighter near the airport called the army offensive the heaviest barrage in more than a year on rebel-held areas near the airport.

“We did not see it coming. The attack came as a real shock to us” he told Al Jazeera.

“There is an insane campaign going on. The regime is employing a scorched-earth policy.”

Fighting in February. The base’s garrison was responsible for securing Aleppo international airport and the adjacent Nayrab military airfield, which both remain under regime control.

More than 120,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria since March 2011, according to the Observatory. Millions more have been internally displaced or have fled abroad.