The closure of major roadways have also added to the agony of the city, leaving an estimated 250,000 to 275,000 people trapped in east Aleppo following the closure of the last access route into the eastern part of the city.
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The US also “warned” the UN Security Council about the possibility of sieges in Aleppo, but it’s unclear how Russian Federation could even conceivably meet those demands, since the siege on the rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been broken, and the Nusra Front is aiming to impose a siege on the government-held districts.
The offensive against the government siege of Aleppo.
“The confrontation will be very fierce over the next three months in Aleppo and Yemen, seeing as negotiations over the Yemeni crisis have stopped and preparations for a decisive military battle have started, while in Aleppo a counterattack (by rebels and jihadists) has kicked off”, the sources said according to MTV.
The opposition front line is now pushing northwest into western held Aleppo on the edges of the Hamdaniya neighborhood and a housing estate called the 3,000 project, opposition groups and the Observatory said.
A military officer says that trucks with food also entered the city, divided between government and rebel control, earlier in the day.
“The army units defending the military academies to the south of Aleppo city, backed by the air force and artillery, have inflicted heavy losses on the Takfiri terrorist groups which renewed attacks along the axis of the academies with large number”, SANA reported.
Anas al-Abdah, president of the opposition Syrian Coalition, told reporters in Istanbul, Turkey, that the victory – which saw rebel fighters defeat the might of the Syrian regime along with Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian military power – was “almost a miracle”.
Al-Abdah said emergency plans were in place to work with local councils in eastern Aleppo to deliver basic services to the area, which the United Nations has warned faced a humanitarian disaster under the government siege.
Abdel Rahman said hundreds of opposition fighters had arrived in Aleppo from the surrounding province and neighboring Idlib.
Most were from the Fateh al-Sham Front, formerly Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, that leads the Army of Conquest. “It is however an important battle, the result of which will set the course of the conflict”, said Thomas Pierret, a Syria expert at the University of Edinburgh.
Over the weekend, rebels in a coalition known as Jaish al-Fatah launched a lightning advance that sealed the conquest of Ramouseh, a key district through which supplies flow to government forces in west Aleppo.
Pierret said a rebel win would confine the regime to an arc of territory between the western coastal areas and the Golan Heights, while a regime victory could lead to the “collapse” of the insurgency. Both sides of the city are maintaining “tenuous supply lines”, Alison says, but there’s fear of a full siege. “This is the new route that the regime forces are securing as a temporary alternative to the route they previously depended on”, Abdel Rahman said.
The attack reportedly killed 13 people, including five children.
A Video footage shows fighters on Sunday evacuating a small group of civilians, mostly women and children, from Ramussa, seen by AFP.
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Global efforts to resolve the conflict have repeatedly failed, although the United Nations is hoping that peace talks can resume later this month.
