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    REBELS SLAY 18 SYRIAN SOLDIERS - FIGHTING RAGES IN THE COUNTRY'S COMMERCIAL CAPITAL

    Kuwait Times
    Sept 12 2012

    ALEPPO: Syrian rebels killed at least 18 soldiers in a car bomb and
    ground attack on a military position in Idlib province yesterday,
    as fighting also raged in the country's commercial capital, Aleppo.

    Four Armenian Syrians were killed and 13 wounded on the road home
    from the airport after a trip to Yerevan. "There were 70 to 100
    soldiers there when the attack occurred" in the town of Saraqeb,
    Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
    said. "Twenty soldiers escaped, and clashes are still going on,"
    he added. Abdel Rahman said the details of the incident were still
    sketchy, and that he could not say whether the car bombing was
    a suicide attack. Outside Aleppo, fighting erupted at dawn in the
    Nayrab area, around five kilometers from the city's airport, which
    remained fully operational, the Observatory said.

    Over the past several weeks, rebels have taken to attacking military
    airfields in an attempt to prevent them from being used for launching
    air strikes, while commercial facilities have been left alone.

    However, this is not the first time there has been fighting around
    Aleppo airport, which serves the country's commercial capital. A friend
    of the Syrian Armenians said: "It's not obvious who opened fire, but
    the result is that five cars were attacked and four Armenians were
    killed and 13 or 14 others were wounded." "Some say it was the FSA
    (Free Syrian Army), but it's not clear. We don't have proof and we
    should wait and see.

    I don't think the FSA would attack random cars in the street." He said
    one of those killed "had left his family behind in Armenia, his wife
    and kids. He had gone back to take care of some things in Aleppo and
    then return." Meanwhile, the army shelled a string of neighborhoods
    in central Aleppo, including Suleiman Al-Halabi, Sheikh Khodr and
    Qadi Askar, the Britain-based Observatory said. Helicopter gunships
    also strafed the rebel district of Bustan Al-Basha, a witness said,
    and the Observatory reported that rebels used rocket-propelled grenades
    to attack a security branch in the adjacent Midan neighborhood. Rebels
    had been trying for four days to enter Midan. Elsewhere, a boy and a
    girl were killed and dozens of civilians wounded when the army shelled
    the rebel village of Latamneh in Hama province, said the Observatory,
    which gathers its information from a wide network of activists. Also
    in Hama, the Observatory reported that eight bodies had been found
    in farmlands in Halfaya village, following an assault by government
    forces. It said the number of dead was expected to rise as many people
    were reported missing.

    In eastern Syria, troops shelled several districts of Deir Ezzor city,
    and an unspecified number of people were killed in air strikes on
    the town of Albu Kamal, the Observatory said. Rebels launched rocket
    attacks on a number of army checkpoints in the northwestern city of
    Idlib, the Observatory added, with locals reporting powerful explosions
    and columns of smoke rising from the targets. On Tuesday, 138 people
    - 93 civilians, 19 rebels and 26 soldiers-were killed nationwide,
    according to the Observatory. Of these, 13 people died in Aleppo,
    mostly civilians in Sakhur, Sukari and Bustan Al-Qasr. More than
    27,000 people have been killed since the revolt against President
    Bashar Al-Assad broke out in March 2011, according to Observatory
    figures. International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Cairo on
    Tuesday to meet exiled opposition leaders ahead of a planned visit
    to Damascus.

    UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Brahimi will meet Assad in Damascus
    and insisted that "the violence must stop by both sides." He told
    reporters in Bern that he understood the frustration felt by many
    in the face of the UN Security Council's apparent paralysis in
    dealing with the spiraling crisis. But "while we may be frustrated
    and troubled by not being able to address the situation in Syria,
    which has reached intolerable circumstances", he said, "we should not
    be overly pessimistic about the strength and the commitment of the
    international community, especially the international organizations."

    "Those countries who might have influence over two parties should
    exercise" that influence and work towards "a political resolution
    reflecting the genuine aspirations of the Syrian people," Ban added.

    Coupled with the violence is the humanitarian crisis caused by the
    large number of people fleeing the country or displaced within its
    borders. The UN refugee agency said the number of civilians who have
    fled nearly 18 months of violence has reached more than 250,000. And it
    says more than 1.2 million civilians, more than half of them children,
    have been displaced inside Syria.- AFP

    http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2012/09/12/rebels-slay-18-syrian-soldiers-fighti
    ng-rages-in-the-countrys-commercial-capital/

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