Morning Star.png Attacks on Aleppo held off James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 29 October 2016 Jihadists launched a major offensive against Syria's largest city Aleppo yesterday. Ahrar as-Sham and the al-Qaida-linked Levant Conquest Front (LCF) used suicide bombers in their assaults on residential areas in the western half of the city, where 1.5 million people live. A Lebanese TV reporter said that attacks took place on "all sides . from the furthest points north to furthest south." Seven civilians were killed and 70 more injured by insurgent shelling which set buildings ablaze. The thousands of anti-government fighters trapped in eastern Aleppo didn't launch any attacks but Islamic State (Isis) staged a seemingly co-ordinated assault on Kuweires air base, which Syrian troops have hung onto for years. The LCF said a French recruit drove a bomb-laden tank close to army positions before detonating it remotely, then drove another to the same position and blew himself up. The foreign-funded and recruited terrorist army claimed control of a sawmill and a checkpoint in the south-east. Intensity dropped But the Syrian army said its troops were holding off most of the attack. "Fighting is still ongoing but the intensity [has] dropped," it said. Syrian government jets bombed fighters in Mansoura and Abu Shailam villages in the west of Aleppo province and Khan Touman and Tallet Bazo hill - the site of recent army advances - south-west of the city. The LCF and Ahrar as-Sham briefly broke through into ruined east Aleppo in August after the army took a northern supply route to the area. But they were beaten back in a month of hard fighting by government forces and allied militias. Thousands of fighters then withdrew towards their backers Turkey for the country's invasion focused on Kurdish militia in northern Aleppo. Insurgents surrounded in east Aleppo have refused a government amnesty and UN offers of safe passage out, and have fired on remaining civilians trying to reach the safety of government lines. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1129-Syria-Aleppo-comes-under-renewed- assault#.WBQyGS19600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1129-Syria-Aleppo-comes-under-renewed-a ssault#.WBQyGS19600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14356 (20161028) __________ 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] . 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): [email protected] . --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. 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/000601d231ae%24dcca9460%24965fbd20%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
