{"id":3449,"date":"2016-10-28T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:17:18","slug":"syria-rebels-in-push-to-break-aleppo-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/28\/syria-rebels-in-push-to-break-aleppo-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria rebels &#8216;in push to break Aleppo siege&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK-based monitoring group said the rebels had fired &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of missiles into western Aleppo, killing at least 15 civilians.<\/p>\n<p>They are also reported to have targeted al-Nayrab military airport to the east.<\/p>\n<p>About 275,000 people have been besieged in the east by pro-government forces for several months.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government said it had repelled offensives on several fronts around Aleppo by both rebel groups and militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Booby-trapped cars, two tanks and a large number of armoured vehicles&#8221; were destroyed, the defence ministry said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Syria and its ally Russia have recently intensified air strikes on the east.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Life under siege in rebel-held Aleppo<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Why Assad wants to take Aleppo<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Aleppo: Key battleground in Syria&#8217;s war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russia said it was time for all rebel groups in eastern Aleppo to be considered &#8220;legitimate targets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks are so far coming from rebels outside Aleppo but it is understood that rebels inside the city will join the offensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the revolutionary factions, without exception, are participating in the battle,&#8221; the military spokesman for the Fastaqim faction inside the city said, AP news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>They include Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, as well as fellow Islamists Ahrar al-Sham.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/BB64\/production\/_92127974_036103415-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicle bomb attack on government position in Aleppo - 28 October\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/FF70\/production\/_92129356_036103586-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jaish al-Fatah rebels prepare to fire home-made mortar launcher west of Aleppo - 28 October\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/98E6\/production\/_92124193_mediaitem92124192.jpg\" alt=\"sellers in rebel-held Aleppo\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Rebels fired Grad missiles at al-Nayrab, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group said. Up to 115 people were killed or wounded, it added.<\/p>\n<p>They also detonated two car bombs against government positions to the south-west of the city. One was a tank driven by a French suicide bomber from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a spokesman for the group said.<\/p>\n<p>The area around the Hmeimim air base near the coastal city of Latakia &#8211; the main airport used by the Russian air force &#8211; was also reportedly targeted, the SOHR said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK-based monitoring group said the rebels had fired &ldquo;hundreds&rdquo; of missiles into western Aleppo, killing at least 15 civilians. They are also reported to have targeted al-Nayrab military airport to the east. About 275,000 people have been besieged in the east by pro-government forces for several months. The Syrian government said it had repelled offensives on several fronts around Aleppo by both rebel groups and militants from so-called Islamic State (IS). &ldquo;Booby-trapped cars, two tanks and a large number of armoured vehicles&rdquo; were destroyed, the defence ministry said on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}