Fighting in Syria: The tanks in Aleppo begins the final battle

After having amassed more than twenty thousand soldiers, and caused it to rain in the last two weeks tons of bombs on neighborhoods in the hands of the insurgents, in the morning the army of the regime has unleashed his counteroffensive to regain Aleppo, Syria's second city and economic capital of the country. The final battle, as they called themselves general of Damascus, began about ten o'clock, with the entry of armored loyalists in the strategic area of central Salaheddin, real stronghold in the Syrian Army hands free, through which passes from day the front line."The regime forces have advanced along the road Malab with tanks and armored vehicles protected by helicopter gunships," he admitted Wassel Ayoub, a local commander of the armed opposition. "In the area are now being furious fighting, with tanks that shoot blindly against every house, indiscriminately targeting civilians and combatants. " According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization based in exile in Britain, the clashes taking place today in the heart of Aleppo are the most intense ever fought in nearly seventeen months of the uprising. The counter-offensive of the scheme is in fact begun to 'dawn today, when forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad started shelling heavily Aleppo, with artillery shells and rocket dropped from fighters of different neighborhoods of the city. One of these has reached a house, causing them to collapse and killing a woman and her two children trapped inside. At noon, the Syrian state television said that several "terrorists" were killed in the district of Salaheddin, recaptured by pro-government soldiers. triumphantly Announcing the fall of the stronghold of the insurgents, the media have added that Damascus loyalist forces would then spread even in adjacent neighborhoods, which would be eliminated most of the "jihadists" who lurked. Around 13 is reached, however, denied the insurgents. "Not true at all," said Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi free Syrian Army."The forces of the regime have not yet taken full control of the district even if they have unleashed an attack on Salaheddin barbaric and savage." In this propaganda war, where only little is known even less reliable and verifiable ones, there comes another equally sensational, namely that the insurgents have shot down a MiG on the sky of Aleppo. The only thing we were able to document with certainty is the huge number of civilians who fled to Turkey, mostly women, elderly and children terrified by the bombs and the intense fighting in the region of Aleppo. Only this night are approximately 2,400 Syrian citizens who have boundless. In the group were also two general and two colonels of the regular army deserters.Over the past two days have seen an increase in refugees who chose to flee to Turkey, because the army bombardments have hit the system in the last hours even villages near the border. Yesterday refugees were 1,328, about twice than two days ago. It is now 50 thousand Syrian citizens who have found refuge in Turkey. Also this morning, meanwhile, after a series of stubborn denials, Iranian authorities have had to recognize that there are also some soldiers and members of the Revolutionary Guards, the so-called cheerleaders, among the more than forty fellow citizens taken captive by insurgents Aug. 4 in Damascus " But this would be items now at rest, retired without connections with the military in Tehran, who went to Syria only for reasons of religious pilgrimage. "