Free Syrian Army claims control of two-thirds of Aleppo, regime denies

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

A Member of the Free Syrian Army fires during clashes with Syrian Army soldiers as others take positions in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district, August 20, 2012. (Reuters)

By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES
 

Syria’s opposition fighters control almost two thirds of the northern city of Aleppo, a top Free Syrian Army commander said on Tuesday, in a claim denied by a security source in Damascus.
 “We now control more than 60 percent of the city of Aleppo, and each day we take control of new districts,” Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi told AFP news agency by telephone. His claims could not immediately be verified.  

 “Every time we seize an area, the army responds with shelling,” Okaidi said.  

 “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.”

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