Syrian city of Aleppo falls into hands of rebels and jihadists

Aleppo is the second largest city in Syria and it has been taken over by jihadists and rebels who have captured strategic military positions on the edges of the city thereby turning the tables on Russian-backed regime forces who had been besieging the city.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 7 August 2016.

Moreover, Western-backed alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters have scored a major victory against the Islamic State (IS) group in the town of Manbij after a fierce two-month battle.
The capture of territory south of Aleppo has been done in a bid to cut off regime forces and open up a new route into besieged rebel-held districts. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that 'The Army of Conquest... took control of the armament school, where there is a large amount of ammunition, and a large part of the artillery school” at a military academy. The coalition of rebels, Islamists, and jihadists “is about to cut off, by gunfire, the supply route into government-controlled districts ... That road passes through a southwestern suburb of Ramussa and is the last route into Aleppo used by regime troops.'


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