SYRIA: Syria's FSA fight to gain control of strategic north-south corridor.

Record ID: 281563

  • Title: SYRIA: Syria's FSA fight to gain control of strategic north-south corridor.
  • Date: 4th November 2012
  • Summary: ( ** GRAPHIC MATERIAL **) MAN WOUNDED IN MORTAR ATTACK AT HOSPITAL WITH BLEEDING HEAD YOUNG BOY WOUNDED IN MORTAR ATTACK AT HOSPITAL WITH ANOTHER WOUNDED MAN NEXT TO HIM DOCTORS ATTENDING TO WOUNDED CHILD VARIOUS OF DOCTOR SEWING CHILD'S WOUNDED EAR WOUNDED MAN LYING ON HIS BACK WITH TWO PEOPLE BY HIS SIDE PEOPLE BRINGING IN WOUNDED CHILD TO HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF YOUNG CHIL
  • Embargoed: 19th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA9O11KNTUWPJGVY3WNVF6ZPFKY
  • Story Text: Syrian rebels try to fend-off sniper attacks in Aleppo's Kaber Jabal in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor.
    Several people were injured, including many children, when two neighbourhoods in Aleppo came under intensive attack by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo.
    The flashpoint city has become the heart of violent attacks as members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have intensified their attacks to gain control of the city -- Syria's biggest -- and secure a strategic north-south corridor.
    Amvid obtained by Reuters showed groups of women and children evacuate a housing complex after it came under a night-time mortar attack by the Syrian army. Many wounded people were taken to hospital, including children and elderly residents.
    On Saturday (November 3), FSA fighters in the neighbourhood of Kaber Jabal fought off snipers trying to hide inside what appeared to be completely abandoned buildings.
    The neighbourhood was in ruins after three days of fighting for control between FSA and the Syrian army.
    Meanwhile, an explosion occurred outside the premises of a state-controlled labour union behind a hotel in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday (November 4), causing casualties, state television said.
    The blast, which the television described as "terrorist" -- the government's word for rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad -- took place in the union's parking lot. It gave no more immediate details.
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