Syria: Government forces launch counter offensive against rebels in Aleppo
Syrian government forces have launched a counter offensive under the cover of airstrikes in an attempt to regain control of areas they lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said.
The offensive came a day after Syrian rebels launched a broad ground attack aiming to break a weeks-long government siege on the eastern rebel-held neighbourhoods of Syria’s largest city.
The insurgents were able to capture much of the western neighbourhood of Assad where the fighting was concentrated, according to the Syrian army and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory said the new offensive by Syrian troops and their allies was ongoing under the cover of Russian and Syrian airstrikes.