A monitoring group says Syrian rebels have retaken an area in Aleppo that fell to government forces the day before, extending a punishing stalemate in the contested northern city.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which maintains a network of local contacts, says rebels seized Handarat, a largely uninhabited Palestinian refugee camp, early Sunday.
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The area is near Castello Road, a vital supply route to the city’s besieged rebel-held areas.
Government forces seized the Castello Road earlier this year, besieging rebel-held districts where some 250,000 people reside.
A Syrian man waters his plants in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on September 25, 2016. (AFP/Abd Doumany)
Yasser al-Yousef, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din al-Zinki rebel faction, says rebels seized Handarat late Saturday.
The Observatory says 213 civilians have been killed by airstrikes and shelling on rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo since a cease-fire expired Monday.
— AP
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