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| Militants of Islamic State clashes with pro-Assad forces near military airport in Aleppo |
| 2015-05-07 |
| Aleppo, Syria ــ On Wednesday, militant fighters of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) gained control over the head office at the entrance of Kwairis Military Airport, east of the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, after targeting the entrance with three car bombs. Military sources told ARA News that the clashes are still ongoing between IS insurgents and the Syrian regime army at the airport’s entrance, pointing out that the group also took over large areas of the airport after three bomb attacks. Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activist Abu Omar al-Halabi said that the regime warplanes launched more than fifty airstrikes on the vicinity of the airport with guided missiles in order to stop the jihadists from entering the Kwairis Military Airport. On the other hand, the rebel brigades of Abu Amara for Special Tasks and Noureddin Zanki announced in a statement that their fighters targeted locations of the pro-regime forces in the northern areas of Rashideen district of Aleppo with homemade rockets, stressing that they have caused casualties in the ranks of Assad army there. |
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