Syrian Crisis: Army, Allies Recapture More Districts in Aleppo
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Syrian Army forces managed to gain more ground against foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the strategic northwestern city of Aleppo.
Army troops established full control over the Kindi Hospital, the al-Shaqif area, al-Hamra Hill as well as 16 farmlands near the deserted Handarat refugee camp in the northern flank of Aleppo, which is some 355 kilometers north of the capital, Damascus, Syria's official SANA reported on Monday.
During the offensive, scores of terrorists were killed and dozens others fled the battle zones to save their lives. The Syrian army and allied popular defense groups had launched operations to hunt them down.
Elsewhere in the town of al-Darkhabiya on the western outskirts of Damascus, army units retook a number of farms and buildings from foreign-backed Takfiri militants in a joint operation with allied fighters.
A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said an army unit destroyed vehicles belonging to terrorists in the Dara'a al-Mahatta neighborhood in the southwestern city of Dara'a, located about 13 kilometers north of the border with Jordan.
Additionally, several members of the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham [formerly known as al-Nusra Front] militant group, were also killed in a Syrian army operation in the town of al-Yadouda.
In a separate development, an unnamed official at the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Russia's airstrikes against militant positions across Syria had helped tighten the grip on terrorist groups and prevented the spread of terrorism to other countries.
The source underlined that the attacks proved Russia's credibility and seriousness in the fight against terrorism, which is posing threats to regional and international security, peace and stability.
Russia has been bombing militants, including Daesh [Arabic acronym for "ISIS" / "ISIL"] and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terrorist groups, in Syria at the official request of President Bashar al-Assad since September 30, 2015.
Syria's foreign-sponsored conflict started in March 2011 and had claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, according to an estimate by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
Meanwhile, the European Union [EU] proposed a new humanitarian initiative aimed at delivering aid to the people trapped in Aleppo and to allow civilians out of the militant-held parts of the city.
The initiative, taken in cooperation with the UN, seeks the immediate evacuation of wounded and sick civilians plus all those in urgent need of medical care, especially women, children and the elderly, from conflict zones in the eastern part of Aleppo.
"The EU calls on all parties to urgently provide the necessary authorizations for aid delivery and for medical evacuations to proceed. It intends to work intensively in the next hours and days with the parties concerned to make this happen," read a statement by EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, and Christos Stylianides, who is the EU's Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
