Rebels in Syria bombard government-held part of Aleppo

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A rebel fighter stands inside a damaged room near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Jan. 8, 2015.
A rebel fighter stands inside a damaged room near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Jan. 8, 2015.
Insurgents bombarded a government-held part of Syria’s second city Aleppo overnight, killing at least eight people, Syrian state media reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that tracks the war, said eight people were killed in an air strike by government forces in a separate, rebel-held part of the city.

Aleppo, near the Turkish border, is a major frontline in the Syrian war. Rebel groups in and around the city have repelled repeated attempts by the Syrian army and militia fighting with it to cut supply lines from Turkey to the rebels.

State TV broadcast pictures showing heavily damaged buildings, some with their facades torn off, and streets strewn with rubble in the Suleimaniyah district of government-held Aleppo.

State media put the confirmed death toll at eight and said dozens more people were trapped under rubble. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the number of dead at five and said the number was likely to increase.

Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, a stanch ally of the Syrian regime , speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.

“We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed,” he said.

State news agency SANA described the insurgents behind the attack as hardline Islamist militants “linked to the Erdogan regime”, a reference to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan who wants to see President Bashar al-Assad removed from power.

Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have faced regular air strikes by the Syrian military. A U.N. commission of enquiry on Syria has recorded the intense use of barrel bombs – improvised bombs dropped by helicopter – by government forces in the city.

The Observatory said dozens more people had been wounded in Saturday’s air strike in the Maadi district of Aleppo and the death toll would likely increase.

Insurgents have also made use of improvised shells to bombard government-held areas. So-called “hell cannons” fire shells comprising a cooking gas cylinder. It was not clear what type of weapon had been used in their latest attack.

Reuters

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11 responses to “Rebels in Syria bombard government-held part of Aleppo”

  1. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Who cares huh? Shia-Sunni is IN

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    1. Exactly! No one cares about your braying you taqqiya whore

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Waha hounddog

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Hind sings …..
        ‘You ain’t nothing but a hound dog, barking all the time ….’ ;-))

        1. You are at least consistent with your spineless grovelling. Lick lick

  2. Vic Daniel Avatar
    Vic Daniel

    Can you at least put a picture of the government held area that got bombarded by the rebels to match the article title? or must you put any rebel picture regardless of what the news is.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hey Vic … hard enough for a reporter to sneak in a model to an abandoned ‘less action’ zone, let alone one that still has cement dust flying. We lost too many reporters already.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Got a couple of OLD ones … 2014 in Allepo … most of Syria resembles this.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          OR even 2012 in Homs …. basically nothing changed in the scenes except for some extra cement dust.

      2. Vic Daniel Avatar
        Vic Daniel

        Then don’t put misleading pictures. Put none!. Also, how come they can get into the Rebel held areas and get the pictures but not the government?. They are all unsafe.

      3. Vic Daniel Avatar
        Vic Daniel

        Then journalist should stop reporting on things they do not know about. Say we do not have reporters on the ground to provide accruate information and stop publishing articles. Its a business pal that unfotunatly misleads public opinion and effect voting decision. Its okay to say we do not know instead of making up stuff

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