(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted major attack carried out by regime forces in the western countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said.
The regime army backed by Shiite militias launched an offensive to take villages of Jabal Shwaihna, Jabal Maara and Rashdin al-Shamaliya west of Aleppo.
The regime seeks to halt advances made by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army, and to 'cut the road' in front of Ankara ambitions to expand inside border territory after taking strategic al-Bab town.
Also in Aleppo, U.N. investigators said this week that regime warplanes had deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy in Aleppo, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations.
Syrian and Russian forces conducted daily air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo between July and its fall on December 22, killing hundreds and destroying hospitals, they said.
The investigators accused the Syrian government of a "meticulously planned and ruthlessly carried out" air strike on a U.N. and Syrian Red Crescent convoy at Orum al-Kubra, in rural western Aleppo on Sept. 19 that killed 14 aid workers.
At the time, the regime army and Russia denied responsibility for the attack. A previous U.N. inquiry had been unable to determine who conducted the strike.
The regime army backed by Shiite militias launched an offensive to take villages of Jabal Shwaihna, Jabal Maara and Rashdin al-Shamaliya west of Aleppo.
The regime seeks to halt advances made by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army, and to 'cut the road' in front of Ankara ambitions to expand inside border territory after taking strategic al-Bab town.
Also in Aleppo, U.N. investigators said this week that regime warplanes had deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy in Aleppo, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations.
Syrian and Russian forces conducted daily air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo between July and its fall on December 22, killing hundreds and destroying hospitals, they said.
The investigators accused the Syrian government of a "meticulously planned and ruthlessly carried out" air strike on a U.N. and Syrian Red Crescent convoy at Orum al-Kubra, in rural western Aleppo on Sept. 19 that killed 14 aid workers.
At the time, the regime army and Russia denied responsibility for the attack. A previous U.N. inquiry had been unable to determine who conducted the strike.
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