Two rebel
commanders have been missed in Aleppo countryside on Wednesday, local sources
in the city of Atareb told Zaman Alwasl.
Nezam
Barakat, leader of Atareb Martyrs brigade, an Islamic Front unit, and Musab Mansour leader of Ahrar Atareb
battalion.
Rebel-held
areas in northern Aleppo have witnessed high rate of kidnapping for rebel
commanders, journalist and activists by the radical Islamist groups.
No further
news confirms if the two commanders has been kidnapped by The State of Iraq and
The Levant (ISIL) or not, sources said. the Islamic Front will probably
announce their missing in a statement, added.
In relevant development from Aleppo,
Insurgents 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.
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.
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.
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