Russian Federation has been conducting precision airstrikes against the ISIL militant group positions in Syria at the request of President Bashar Assad since September 30.
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AMMANThe Syrian army and allied forces captured the town of Al Hader in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday, Syrian state television said quoting a military source, in their latest advance in a strategic rebel-held area.
Syria’s army, backed by allied forces and Russian air strikes, seized a key rebel town south of Aleppo on Thursday, scoring its second major advance in the province this week.
Hader is located around 10 kilometers (six miles) from the key Aleppo-Damascus highway, parts which were retaken by the Syrian pro-government forces weeks ago. The town lies just south of the contested northern city of Aleppo, the country’s largest and once commercial center.
The Syrian army broke through an ISIS siege on Kewairis military airport on Tuesday in Aleppo’s eastern countryside, which has been surrounded by the terror group since 2013, according to Syrian state news agency, SANA, and the head of London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdelrahman.
It also reported the deaths of 13 Iranian forces and eight members of Hezbollah.
Its capture would give government forces a big boost and allow them to disrupt rebel lines linking their Aleppo province strongholds with rebel-controlled Idlib.
The Syrian army troops are prevailing over Aleppo with an increased momentum of victories in the province following its groundbreaking battle win in Kuweires military airport.
Neither representatives of the Syrian regime nor opposition groups are expected to attend this stage of the dialogue.
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More than 250,000 have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as a result of the crisis in Syria since March 2011.
