A senior commander with the Free Syrian Army said on Tuesday that rebels control almost two thirds of Aleppo, the country's biggest city, a claim denied by security sources in Damascus.
Rebels prepare to move into Aleppo's Salah Edinne area earlier this month Photo: REUTERS
3:19PM BST 21 Aug 2012
"We now control more than 60 percent of the city of Aleppo, and each day we take control of new districts," Col Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi told AFP by telephone. His claims could not immediately be verified.
"Every time we seize an area, the army responds with shelling," he added.
Government officials said the claims were exaggerated.
"This is completely false," the security source told AFP. "The terrorists are not advancing, it is the army that is making slow progress. Terrorist groups occasionally come out of districts under their control and attack other districts to be able to then claim they have this or that street under their control."
"After that, they quickly return to their lairs."
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Syria's second city has been at the epicentre of the conflict since fighting erupted there almost a month ago, triggering a major army assault about a week later.
Col Okaidi, who is the FSA commander for the province of Aleppo, listed more than 30 districts that he said were under FSA control.
Among them were the south-western neighbourhoods of Saif al-Dawla, Bustan al-Qasr, Mashhad, Ansari and Fardoss, as well as Shaar, Hanano and Sakhur in the east, Bustan al-Basha in the northeast, Sheikh Saeed Fardoss in the south, and Kalasse near the city centre.
About half of the embattled district of Salaheddin is in rebel hands, Col Okaidi said, adding that the FSA also holds the central neighbourhood of Tilal.
Col Okaidi said Aleppo's residents are helping the FSA by giving them food and water.
"The people are with us," he said. "How else do you think we could have lasted a month?"
AFP
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