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| Battle for Aleppo intensifies |
| 2012-07-26 |
| DAMASCUS: The battle for the Syria’s second city of Aleppo took to an intensifying turn as helicopter gunships strafed several neighborhoods of the city causing deaths and injuries, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. In Aleppo, Syria’s commercial capital, clashes raged in the central Al-Jamaliya neighborhood, close to the local headquarters of the ruling Baath party. In Kalasseh, in the south of the city, rebels set fire to a police station, the Observatory said. Fighter jets overflew the city, breaking the sound barrier but not carrying out bombing raids, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. A “large number” of troops have been moved from the northwestern province of Idlib to join the fighting in Aleppo, a rebel spokesman told AFP via Skype. Free Syrian Army Col. Abdel Jabbar Al-Oqaidi said he believed the reinforcements were being sent because of the intensity of clashes in Aleppo, where several districts were “liberated” on Monday. “There are clashes right now in Aleppo, so fierce that many of their troops are running away, while dozens of others are defecting on the spot,” Oqaidi said. “Their morale is very low.” |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 this should cause civilian casuatlies to soar. may be the start of a bloodbath that makes the previous ones look like kids play. |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-07-26 13:02 |
| #2 as of about one hour ago a column of Syrian Govt Armour was entering the outer portions of Aleppo the rebels don't have anti tank weapons yet, at least not many of them so Assad may end up retaking Aleppo for now |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-07-26 11:32 |
| #1 Baby Assad in this Aleppo battle has repor finally formally unleashed the Syrian Air Force agz the Rebs. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-07-26 00:26 |