According to al-Zein, different factions of the armed Syrian opposition chose to cooperate in order to reopen their only supply line into the key Aleppo city.
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This ceasefire was the latest that the Syrian government announced country-wide since the cessation of hostilities was signed by the United States and Russian Federation in February.
SANA said the new extension will started on Saturday afternoon and will last till Tuesday midnight. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which gathers information from a network of informants across the war-torn country, said the cars were driven by two suicide bombers from al-Qaida’s Syria affiliate, the Nusra Front, which fights alongside rebel groups against government forces.
“There is now fierce fighting underway, but the opposition has not advanced because of the heavy aerial bombardment the regime is carrying out on the areas where fighting is underway”.
Syrians attend a rescue operation after the airstrikes on a market.
They say hundreds of shells and rockets have been fired and that clashes were most intense near the old quarter and the famed citadel in Aleppo. But groups fighting under the banner of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) say they control the rebel-held part of the city. Those killed included media activist Ibrahim Omar and two civil defence rescue workers, it said.
Syrian opposition fighters launched a major assault on government-held districts of Aleppo city on Monday after the regime severed their only remaining supply route into the city, an Agence France-Presse correspondent said.
An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people live in the rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
More than 280,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.
Once Syria’s commercial center, Aleppo has been bitterly contested since the summer of 2012. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided.
Ongoing government artillery fire and barrel bomb attacks were reported in the east of the city early on Sunday. It was the last rebel-held bit of territory before the rebel-held town of Dumeir to the east, from which it was separated by a stretch of government-controlled land.
February 2016: The government captures towns north-west of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the rebel-held area of the city.
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This comes just one day after the regime forces hit the rebel headquarters in the city and killed at least 26 fighters.
