Aleppo Rebels Stand Firm in "Regime's Grave"

[Chris]

Aleppo Rebels Stand Firm in "Regime's Grave" - Latest News Briefs - Israel National News

Aleppo Rebels Stand Firm in "Regime's Grave"

The Syrian military stepped up its campaign to drive rebel fighters out of Aleppo, but rebels said they were still holding firm in the country's biggest city, which they have vowed to turn into the "grave of the regime.” Opposition activists denied a government declaration that its forces had recaptured the Salaheddine district, in southwest Aleppo, straddling the most obvious route for Syrian troop reinforcements coming from the south. Hospitals and makeshift clinics in rebel-held eastern neighbourhoods were filling up with casualties from a week of fighting in the city, a commercial hub that had previously stayed out of a 16-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

"Some days we get around 30, 40 people, not including the bodies," said a young medic in one clinic. "A few days ago we got 30 injured and maybe 20 corpses, but half of those bodies were ripped to pieces. We can't figure out who they are." The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 40 people, 30 of them civilians, were killed in Syria on Monday. Two rebel fighters died in Salaheddine. Outgunned rebel fighters, patrolling in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black "independence" flags, said they were holding out in Salaheddine despite a battering by the army's heavy weapons and helicopter gunships. A fighter jet flew overhead, a reminder of the overwhelming military advantage still enjoyed by government forces 16 months into the uprising. (Reuters)

[readytogo]

I don't know what to say...this has gone on for longer than I thought that it would.

[anath]

This is a power struggle between the Allowites and Sunnis and I think it can go on indefinitely. Syrian Rebels have no strategy and are disorganized. They haven't been able to hold a city for more than a day.

[daygo]

This one baffles me, I can see no end of this. All I am doing now is watching for any fulfillment of Isaiah 17 coming true.