A Syrian warplane bombed a building in the northern rebel-held town of al-Bab in 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...
province on Monday, killing at least 10 men, six women and two children, a watchdog said.
"The victims included two children, a girl and a boy," Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "They died when the fighter jet bombed the building where they were sheltered."
The army also pounded several districts of the city of Aleppo, the Observatory said, more than six weeks after the start of what Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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regime warned would be "the mother of all battles" in Syria's commercial hub.
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State news agency SANA said on Monday that "our brave armed forces continued to purse terrorists... who sustained heavy losses," adding that the army "seized large quantities of arms and ammunition" from the rebels on the outskirts of Aleppo city.
The army, SANA said, destroyed a number of pick-up trucks equipped with heavy machine guns at Kafr al-Hamra, "at the northern entrance of Aleppo, while Islamic fascisti tried to enter the city."