Morning Star.png Army Wins Series of Victories but Fight for Aleppo Goes On James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 13 October 2016 A string of Syrian army victories over foreign-backed extremists were confirmed by reports yesterday as the battle for Aleppo ground on. Troops advanced in the north and south of rebel-held east Aleppo, attacking Tel Sheik Saeed hill and the Bushtan al-Pasaha districts. A local source said talks had begun between some militant groups in Bushtn al-Pasha on a possible amnesty allowing them to leave the city. But the main groups in Aleppo, al-Qaida affiliate the Levant Conquest Front (LCF) and the fundamentalist Nour al-Din al-Zinki, have refused to negotiate. The government has offered safe passage to civilians and militants who lay down their arms, but Russia Today correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported this week that insurgent snipers were targeting those who try to flee. In central Hama province, the army captured the key town of Kawkab and more than a dozen villages seized by LCF offshoot Jund al-Aqsa in recent weeks. The army took advantage of infighting between the al-Qaida affiliate and the Western-backed Ahrar al-Sham to reverse their recent gains. Meanwhile, 150 Jund al-Aqsa militants swore allegiance to Islamic State (Isis) after fleeing to its eastern stronghold of Raqqa. East of Damascus, government troops controlled the town of Reyhan after driving insurgents out on Wednesday night. That leaves the army just a mile from Douma, the centre of the Ghouta pocket. In the towns of al-Hama and Qudsaya, to the west of Damascus, rebels surrendered their heavy weaponry to the army in the latest of a series of truces negotiated independently of the United Nations. Some 150 militants and their families will be evacuated, but another 400 will accept a government amnesty and stay on. Elsewhere, troops and Palestinian militias captured the northern districts of the Yarmouk refugee camp south of the capital, after being forced out by Isis earlier this year. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7440-Army-wins-series-of-victories-but- fight-for-Aleppo-goes-on#.V_8Cjvl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14270 (20161012) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d22506%2422277b50%24667671f0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
