Car bomb kills 25 Syrian troops in Aleppo: Opposition
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) At least 25 Syrian troops were killed Monday by a suicide car-bomb attack carried out by the Nusra Front in western Aleppo's Jamiat al-Zahraa district, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday.
According to Ansar al-Sharia, an umbrella of armed groups united against the Regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, opposition fighters stormed the district immediately following the suicide attack.
Speaking via Twitter, Ansar al-Sharia claimed to have seized control of "a number of buildings" in the district following the deadly car bombing.
On the same day, the "Fatah Halap factions" € another anti-regime opposition umbrella group, based in Aleppo € attacked a government military academy near the city's western Al-Hemdaniya district, according to an opposition source.
The assault, in which the attackers reportedly used Grad missile launchers, left a number of casualties among Syrian troops, the source said.
Also on Monday, a U.S.-led international coalition carried out a number of airstrikes against positions held by the Daesh militant group on Aleppo's northern outskirts.
Omar al-Shamali, an Aleppo-based activist, said the strikes had killed 15 Daesh fighters, including a senior commander.
A number of different rebel groups recently launched an offensive aimed at capturing government-controlled districts of Aleppo.
Despite informal talks between the Afghan government representatives and the Taliban in Norway, Qatar and Dubai, the fighting in Afghanistan has escalated following the launch of the Taliban's spring offensive in April.
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