Ferocity is storming in many locations across Syria, with activists reporting some of the greatest collides up to now in the country’s commercial capital of Aleppo.
Government forces and rebels were reportedly colliding for a second day in the city’s Salaheddine district on Saturday.
Aleppo-based activist Mohammad Saeed told dozens of rebels from the Free Syrian Army were in the city.
“The uprising has ultimately arrived at Aleppo,” Saeed told.
Till recently, Aleppo was mostly protected from the ferocity that plagued other Syrian cities over the course of the rebellion against President Bashar Assad.
The clashes seemed to be overspreading by early Saturday afternoon, in accordance with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Bloody clashes are going on between Syrian regime forces and rebel fighters in the Sakhur neighbourhood and the Haydariya area,” the UK-based group told.
The Local Co-ordination Committees activist network and the Observatory told Friday’s fighting drove many residents to fly to safer areas.
The Observatory also reported heavy clashes at the entryway of al-Rastan, a rebel stronghold in Homs province, telling troops were adjudicating to get into the town.
In the meantime, a tense calm dominated in Damascus, after 6 days of intense fighting.
The ground forces deployed tanks on Friday to drive rebels out of al-Midan in which fighting left autos gutted and fighters’ bodies in the streets.
Struggles involving troops bringing in tanks, helicopters and mortars have converted parts of Damascus into combat area, and sent 1000s of Syrian families packed in cars streaming across the border into neighbouring Lebanon.
More than two hundred people were killed nationwide in a single day on Friday, activists told.
In-depth coverage of intensifying ferocity across Syria
In spite of being displaced of al-Midan, the armed opposition seem to have acquired impulse across the nation in recent days.
4 senior officials were killed after bomb went off during a upper-level security assembling in Damascus on Wednesday, according to government media.
Rebels have also managed to capture at least 2 border checkpoints. One of the key crossings into Iraq has been closed down by authorities in Baghdad after opposition fighters took charge of the checkpoint on the Syrian side
