Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time since 2016. A pro-government newspaper says warplanes targeted rebel supply lines on the city’s edge Saturday.
for the first time since 2016, while warplanes targeted rebel supply lines on the city’s edge, state media reported Saturday.
Twenty fighters were killed in the airstrikes that targeted rebel reinforcements, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the country’s unresolved civil war. Aleppo residents reported clashes and gunfire, and some were fleeing the fighting. On a state TV morning show Saturday, commentators said army reinforcements and Russia’s assistance will repel the “terrorist groups,” blaming Turkey for supporting the insurgents’ push into Aleppo and Idlib provinces.
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