[Al Ahram] At least 26 regime supporters were killed in an ambush in the northern province of Aleppo...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
on Friday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "At least 26 supporters of the regime - believed to be forces of Evil - were rubbed out in the west of the province of Aleppo," the watchdog said, adding that regime forces have shelled villages in the area for several weeks.