BEIRUT (AP) – partisan Syrian government forces backed by air strikes launched a broad offensive on Sunday near the northern city of Aleppo, recovered lost last month areas and almost besieged neighborhoods of the city under rebel control, said means state and an activist opposition group.
the offensive came a month after insurgents took several military academies located south of Aleppo and opened a corridor to rebel areas in the largest city in Syria, it was the commercial heart of the country.
Since then, government troops and their allies have tried to recapture the area.
the troops have taken the Academy of Armament and “continue their advance in the area to impose an almost total siege armed in Aleppo men, “said the state news agency SANA quoted a military source unidentified.
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Great Britain confirmed that government troops had taken the academy.
Al-Manar TV, the Hezbollah Lebanese group, said forces advance into neighboring Artillery Academy. Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to reinforce the troops of President Bashar Assad.
To the north of Aleppo, the fighting between rebels backed by Turkey and the Islamic State group near al-Rai intensified a rebellious population to near the Turkish border.
Turkey sent tanks to al-Rai on Saturday in what he called a “new phase” of its operation to zoom out to the Islamic State border. Al-Rai is located 55 kilometers west of Jarablus, a border town taken by rebels backed by Turkey last week. The forces with Turkish support from both populations move intended to find and close the last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border in the hands of extremists.
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