WORLD_ Syria rebels try to seize airbase

Syria rebels try to seize airbase

AAP
January 04, 2013 9:22AM

FURIOUS combat is raging around the main airport and a military airbase in northern Syria, a day after the United Nations gave a staggering toll of 60,000 dead in the 21-month civil war.

Syrian troops are facing fierce battles as rebels try to seize Aleppo's airport and an airbase


Insurgents besieged troops on the perimeter of Aleppo's international airport and around Taftanaz airbase in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The airport in Aleppo, the hard fought-over main city in northern Syria, has been closed since Tuesday after repeated attacks by rebels, according to an airport official.

Hundreds of fighters from two hardline Islamist rebel groups, the Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, battled soldiers around the Taftanaz airbase, the Britain-based Observatory said as regime warplanes pounded rebel positions.

The rebels had remotely detonated a bomb at one of the base's gates the day before, but were pushed back by the army, according to both the Observatory and a military source inside the airbase.

The military source told AFP that clashes outside Taftanaz had been non-stop for more than 48 hours and there had been a large number of rebel casualties.

Three rebels were also killed by troops around the Deir Ezzor military airport, as fighting broke out in the provincial capital in the east of the country.

In the town of Mleha, just east of Damascus, bodies were being recovered from a service station hit by a regime air strike on Wednesday.

The Observatory said at least 12 bodies were recovered, several of them rebels. The Local Coordination Committees, a grassroots network of activists, estimated that at least 50 people died in the attack.

The Observatory said 160 people were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, including 72 civilians, almost half of whom were women and children.

On the humanitarian front, a 33-truck aid convoy organised by Turkish and Qatari relief groups left Istanbul on Thursday carrying 850 tonnes of flour.

"Assad's regime is bombing the bakeries and there is a very huge need for flour in Syria," Huseyin Oruc, the vice-president of the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, said.

One of Assad's main allies, Hassan Nasrallah, chief of the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, warned in a televised speech on Thursday that Syria was threatened with "schemes of division and partition".

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