Fighting rages in Syria’s city of Aleppo

Fighting raged in a strategic district of Syria’s city of Aleppo on Saturday, the third day of an all-out rebel offensive to seize the city, monitors say.

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ALEPPO Fighting raged in a strategic district of Syria’s city of Aleppo on Saturday, the third day of an all-out rebel offensive to seize the city, monitors say. The focal point of combat was Salaheddin, a rebel stronghold on the southwest side of the city where insurgents attacked an army position, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, AFP has reported. Fighting rages in Syria’s city of Aleppo Elsewhere in the country, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled localities in the southern province of Daraa, where fighting was also taking place, as well as in Deir Ezzor in the east and the capital itself. At least six soldiers were killed in Daraa, while four civilians died in the Deir Ezzor shelling and two rebels were killed. An unspecified number of people were wounded in Damascus. According to AFP, in the Aleppo province locality of Maskana, a one-year-old baby died and his mother and brother were wounded by shelling. Rebels said they had advanced on several fronts, particularly in the southwest, but admitted they had failed to make any significant breakthrough. Across the country, at least 117 people had been killed on Friday, 71 of them civilians, the Observatory said. About one million to 1.5 million people are internally displaced, with a further 300,000 having slipped into the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, according to UN estimates. A scene from Aleppo (Beta, file) AFP Tanjug

Fighting rages in Syria’s city of Aleppo

Elsewhere in the country, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled localities in the southern province of Daraa, where fighting was also taking place, as well as in Deir Ezzor in the east and the capital itself.

At least six soldiers were killed in Daraa, while four civilians died in the Deir Ezzor shelling and two rebels were killed. An unspecified number of people were wounded in Damascus.

According to AFP, in the Aleppo province locality of Maskana, a one-year-old baby died and his mother and brother were wounded by shelling.

Rebels said they had advanced on several fronts, particularly in the southwest, but admitted they had failed to make any significant breakthrough.

Across the country, at least 117 people had been killed on Friday, 71 of them civilians, the Observatory said.

About one million to 1.5 million people are internally displaced, with a further 300,000 having slipped into the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, according to UN estimates.

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