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NYTimes report on Battle of Aleppo as of evening 8-2
Syrian rebels shelled an airport near Aleppo on Thursday... opposition activists warned that fighting for the city, the countrys main commercial center, would likely intensify...President Bashar al-Assads army appeared to be preparing for an all-out assault....We have seen military reinforcements making their way to Aleppo,... Some reports from Turkey also suggested that Syrian government forces were trying to cut rebel supply lines, with fighting raging in a rebel-held town near the Turkish border... opposition leaders said they had found dozens of bodies in a suburb of Damascus in the aftermath of the Syrian Armys house-to-house search for rebel fighters and activists. This claim of a new massacre came as the rebels faced severe criticism themselves for what appeared to be their brutal summary execution, one day earlier... the United Nations said on Wednesday what rebels had been saying for days: the Syrian Army was using jet fighters in its operations. And they are not just flying, as in the past; now, according to the United Nations monitor mission in Syria and videos showing flashes of light bursting from dark jets, they are firing. Posted by: lord garth 2012-08-03 |
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