Assad said his army to Syria's fate depends on his victory

Syrian President Bashar Assad has been commemorated on Wednesday the day of the armed forces with a message through a statement that ensures the ongoing battle that will determine the fate of the country. "The destiny of our people and our nation, past, present and future depends on this battle," the president in the message published in the army. Assad added that the soldiers are the trustees of the "values ​​of the people". The autocrat did not appear in public. No one speaks to audiences since before July 18, when an attack took the life of the military leadership in a military headquarters in Damascus. Only been seen at official events on television. And the battle continues in Aleppo. While the heavy artillery of the Syrian army destroyed the city with airplanes, helicopters and tanks, the decisive battle for control of the city is increasingly taking the form of a guerrilla war. Street by street, the two opposing sides try to gain a territory where there is no clear fronts, and where the sniper fire makes the city, the main economic center of Syria, is in many city neighborhoods a ghost that bleeds slowly. What seems clear is that the Army is encountering fierce resistance in Aleppo, and after 10 days of fighting , has not been able to retake the city, which is quite different from what happened from July 18 in Damascus , when the Insurgents launched an offensive that was repelled in a few days. However, some rebel commanders say the conquest of the city is a matter of days, not weeks. "The regime has tried for three days to conquer the district of Saladin, but their attempts have failed and suffered many losses in human lives, weapons and tanks, and was forced to retire," he assured Reuters Tuesday Oqaidi Abdel Jabbar al , head of one of the rebel groups in Aleppo. Is fighting in this district southwest of the city and others who had been free of skirmishes. But nothing suggests that the very short term one side can definitively imposed. The militia of Free Syria Army (SLA) begin to have grenade launchers, rifles and explosives as well, but can do little when they come into action, as yesterday, helicopters and Mig fighter. The 3,000 insurgents-figure provided by Al-try Oqaidi step closer to the center of the ancient city, but also try to keep hospitals and clinics running underground, trying to secure supplies of bread, and to organize the low traffic of vehicles traveling the streets and avenues of Aleppo, and seek the water and electricity do not deteriorate further than it already is. In addition, its still small arms, despite reported efforts of Saudi Arabia-Tasting or prevented rapid progress against a much better equipped military. But the rebels say the morale of the soldiers of the regime is in tatters and hope that time is on their side. A group of soldiers was ambushed while trying to approach a Christian neighborhood to go there with the fight against the regular army. On his way he met the shabiha , the regime's thugs. The details of the story are not entirely clear, but it seems that the SLA had reached a pact with theshabiha to let them go ahead without a fight. A change would be treated with compassion. But it turned out to be traps. The mercenaries were attacked with grenades and gunfire. "They surrounded us and we started shooting. 10 people have died in total. One of Albab, another Aleppo and eight of here, "says Mohamed, one of the rebels who witnessed the confrontation in the city of Tallrifat. Hours after the ambush, the rebels announced the arrest of 30 shabihas , including Zaimo Barri, the head of the family Barri, a group of gangsters who controlled the city and who called himself "the governor of Aleppo." At night, the rebels said they had executed and euphoria erupted. "Soon we will get the control of the entire city," said a supporter. Another 10 shabiha killed in the fray. Mohamed, with a plaster on his neck, just a scratch in battle, attends the funeral of the eight people in his village. The bodies are carried through the village between songs and words of encouragement to young people who are falling in Aleppo."Do not forget the blood of these martyrs," shouts the crowd. Not far from the area where the ambush took place, the rebels managed to finally take the police station that prevented them from moving freely in the south of the city. After several days of combat and can say without doubt that the SLA has finally managed to establish a corridor between east and west. Yesterday they killed the police chief. The street is one of the gunmen. If 200,000 people have fled the city in recent days , tens of thousands more evade leave their homes if they can. Thousands of people take refuge in schools and mosques in a city of 2.5 million people are living the strangest month of Ramadan in recent decades: when breaking the fast, the sun fell, the streets of any Arab city fill with people.