In
a video statement posted on the Internet, rebels of Aleppo said that remarkable
gains have been achieved in the southern countryside of the embattled city.
13
villages have become under the Islamic rebels control, activists said.
The
Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), Ahrar al-Sham Movement and ‘Fa Estakem
Kma Amrt Rally’ participated in the
battles.
Yesterday
was a blessed day for rebels, according to social media activists due to the mounting
victories on different battlefields in Qalamoun hills and Eastern suburbs of
Damascus among retreating for Assad forces with its Shi’ite militias.
Assad's
military resurgence this year has relied to a great extent on support from
Shi'ite Iran and fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, some of
them based around a Shi'ite shrine southeast of Damascus.
They
have helped turn the tide against the Sunni Muslim rebels, whose ranks are
increasingly dominated by Islamist fighters and al Qaeda-linked foreign
jihadists.
"In the last few months Assad has been increasingly leaving the fighting in the urban areas, especially Damascus and its environs, to his Shi'ite allies," a Middle East security official said.
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