Fierce clashes are taking place in northern Aleppo between rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local source say to Zaman Alwasl.
ISIL has seized village of Handarat
near Azaz, sources said. Since 72 hours Islamist rebels have engaed in violent
clashes to retake the city Azaz.
Violent clashes also took place between ISIL and Islamic battalions in the southern outskirts of
Manbj, reports of losses in both sides, the British-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights said.
The Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the
nascent Mujahedeen Army, the Islamic Front has been engaged in fierce fighting
with ISIL in rebel-held areas.
In relevant development, Aleppo
international airport, closed for a year because of fighting, reopened
Wednesday with the landing of a civilian aircraft, state media reported,
according to AFP.
"A first airplane landed at
Aleppo's international airport, after the Syrian army secured the
outskirts," state news agency SANA reported.
State television reported live from the
airport, its reporter standing in front of the Syrian Air plane.
The airport has been closed since
January 2013, when advances by rebel forces in the northern province of Aleppo
made it too dangerous to use.
Aleppo city, the country's former
economic capital, has been devastated by fighting between the government and
rebel forces that began in mid-2012.
Syria's armed uprising began as a
series of peaceful democracy protests 34 months ago but escalated into a
full-blown civil war after Assad's regime launched a brutal crackdown on
dissent.
The conflict is estimated to have
killed around 200,000 people and displaced millions more.
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