MAPAMBANO USIKU NA MCHANA

Waasi Syria wazidi kuteka miji, Juhudi za kumaliza mvutano zina zidi kufifia.

Waasi wa Syria wakimsaidia Mpambanaji mwenzao ambaye amejeruhiwa na maguruneti yanayosukumizwa na vikosi vinavyo mtii rais wan chi hiyo Bashar All Asad, kwaajili ya kumkimbiza hospitali kwenye mji wa Aleppo. Picha na AFP

 

Mtoto wa kiume mwenye umri wa miaka 12 akiwa amelala kwenye kochi kwenye eneo la mapokezi kwenye hospitali ya Aleppo baada ya kujeruhiwa na milipuko jana. Picha na AFP

 

Syrian Arab Republic

A top Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander says Syria's rebels control almost two-thirds of the northern city of Aleppo, in a claim denied by a security source in Damascus.

The news came as two people were killed and more than 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.

 

Syria's second city Aleppo has been at the epicentre of the conflict since fighting erupted there almost a month ago, triggering a major army assault about a week later.

FSA colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi said: "We now control more than 60 per cent of the city of Aleppo, and each day we take control of new districts."

"Every time we seize an area, the army responds with shelling."

 

His claims could not immediately be verified, but a security source said, "This is completely false".

"The terrorists are not advancing, it is the army that is making slow progress.

"Terrorist groups occasionally come out of districts under their control and attack other districts to be able to then claim they have this or that street under their control.

 "After that, they quickly return to their lairs."

 Mr Okaidi, the FSA commander for the province of Aleppo, listed more than 30 districts that he said are under FSA control.

 Among them were the south-western neighbourhoods of Saif al-Dawla, Bustan al-Qasr, Mashhad, Ansari and Fardoss, as well as Shaar, Hanano and Sakhur in the east, Bustan al-Basha in the northeast, Sheikh Saeed Fardoss in the south, and Kalasse near the city centre.