Rebels Capture Kindi Barracks in Aleppo

Syrian Rebels have captured Kindi Hospital, converted into a regime military headquarters barracks, on Friday in Aleppo after a siege since April and months of attacks, according to the Syrian Local Coordination Committees.

The Islamic Front unit Liwa al-Tawhid reported the takeover, carried out together with IF’s Ahrar al-Sham units and support from the Islamist faction Jabhat al-Nusra, EAWorldView reported.

Liwa al-Tawhid claimed dozens of Syrian troops were killed and that they captured significant amounts of equipment and weapons, even tanks. Some officers have been taken prisoner-of-war.

In relevant development, Reuters Photojournalist, Mulham Barakat, passed away Friday near Al Kindi Hospital in Aleppo, during his covering to the ongoing battles between rebels and forces loyal to Bashar Al Assad, Lens of Young Halabi F.B reported.

Media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says at least 25 professional journalists and 70 citizen journalists have been killed in the conflict.

RSF says at least 16 foreign journalists are missing in Syria, although many cases have not been made public at the request of their families.

The deteriorating conditions have prompted many international media organisations to suspend sending reporters to rebel-held areas.

"Most journalists are saying for now that it is too risky to go to Syria, though many of them want to go and feel that they should," said RSF's Soazig Dollet, according to AFP.

An estimated 126,000 people have been killed and millions displaced by Syria's civil war, which erupted after a fierce government crackdown on pro-democracy protests first held in March 2011.