ALEPPO
Syrian opposition forces from al-Sham Front killed 30 regime soldiers Wednesday in the northern province of Aleppo, opposition forces said.
Fierce clashes took place between al-Sham Front factions and regime forces near Bashkoy village in the Handarat area, which has a strategic significance in northern Aleppo governorate, Yaser Ahmed, a spokesman of al-Sham Front, told The Anadolu Agency.
Opposition fighters have launched assaults against Assad regime forces in northern Aleppo and have recently seized control of al-Mallah and Handarat villages in the Handarat area, managing to break the Syrian regime’s siege of Aleppo, Ahmed added.
Syrian opposition groups, including the Islamic Front, had agreed to unite under the name Al-Sham Front on Oct. 25, 2014.
Al-Sham is the Arabic acronym for the Levant, a region of the Middle East which encapsulates Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
Syria’s civil war has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and displaced almost half of the country's population since 2011.
