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| Syria fighters hit air base used to attack Aleppo |
| 2012-08-03 |
| ALEPPO: Syrian rebels shelled yesterday an air base being used by regime forces to pound the northern city of Aleppo. "Menagh military airport was bombarded yesterday morning by a tank captured previously by the rebels," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said of the base 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of the country's commercial capital. An AFP reporter who witnessed the bombardment said rebels told him it was "an attack to take this airport being used by helicopters and planes that are firing on Aleppo." The United Nations confirmed on Wednesday that rebels battling President Bashar Assad's regime now had heavy armour, and that its military observers had seen the Syrian military use a fighter jet to attack rebels in Aleppo. AFP correspondents on the ground have reported that rebels have captured a number of tanks, and some armoured units have defected with their vehicles. The Observatory and an activist said mobile phone and Internet services in Aleppo have been cut since Wednesday, and a security source in Damascus told AFP such cuts are "generally the precursor to a major military offensive." |
| Posted by:Steve White |