Beirut (AP) - Syria, rebels launched an offensive to "liberate" the country's largest city of Aleppo, the opposition commander said Sunday, while in the hands of the Damascus army helicopters armed to seize control of the rebel-controlled block support.
To regain control of the capital Damascus regime forces the rebels in Aleppo, the commercial hub and the cornerstone of the traditional support of President Bashar al-Assad against attack Syria, is a growing confidence and ability, even close to the days of the bloody a sign of street fighting.
Civil war with Syria, move from the country's two major urban centers to rural areas and small cities, an activist group said the death toll has risen to 19,000 since March 2011, the uprising began. Syrian Human Rights Watch also said that the conflict the deadliest month in July, so far, in the first three weeks, 2,752 people were killed.
The government of the rebel struggle, the battle of one week in Damascus, including Assad's inner circle bombing raid killed four senior regime officials, bloody conflict is escalating. Attempt to seize the momentum of the opposition, and has also taken control of several border crossings with Iraq and Turkey.
Recently, the video online Sunday more than a dozen standing on the Turkish border, militants in Bab AL-Umm Salamah the tunnel before them, the Syrian opposition signs show that the activists.
However, in the directions of the see-saw nature of the conflict, even the rebels seized the junction, they give up another on the Iraqi border.
Iraqi military officials and state television reported that the Syrian government forces to regain remote Rabiya control, the rebels pulled out the cross between the two countries.
Gen. Qassim al-Dulaimi, the people around Qaim border areas the commander of Iraqi forces, are also fighting for the voice of the Bukamal crossroads that Assad's forces are trying to recapture as well.
Damascus and Aleppo, the fighting has shaken the government a seemingly iron in two cities, both elite who also close to the Assad regime to benefit, as well as the merchant class and minority groups who worry about the state of their own home caught fertility will suffer if Assad decline.
Rebel commander in the province of Aleppo, Colonel Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Aqidi, said: "We give to the orders of Aleppo, the liberation of its purpose."
"We urge the residents of Aleppo to stay in their homes, until the city is the liberation, he said:" activist YouTube posted a video. He added that the rebels fighting in cities, while others from the suburbs.
Army aqidi called defects, and joined the opposition, and said that the rebels will protect President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, a member of the Shiite branch of Islam, said: "Our war is not you, but with the Assad family. "
British human rights and the Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed Syrian Observatory said the fighting was concentrated in a few blocks.
Saeed said that the rebels in full control of the central Salaheddine area and near Sakhour District. He added that thousands of residents have fled the tight quarters of a safe neighborhood and suburban cities.
"Aleppo is experiencing serious street fighting", and many shops are closed, Saeed said.
He said, trying to surround the airport to send reinforcements as rebels, in order to prevent the regime clashed, leading to the city's international airport on the road, as Nairab.
However, the Syrian state television played down the scale of violence, he said, forces to go after the terrorists and their large number of deaths.
In the capital Damascus, the Observatory is also reported that, once the rebels held the neighborhood Mazzeh and the Barzeh army attacks. It said that the army used helicopters armed attacks, causing heavy casualties.
Major-General Nabil · Zughaib, as the missile expert introduction, was also shot and killed near Damascus Bab Touma, together with his wife and a son, according to the Observatory.
Syrian state television in Damascus denied that government forces using helicopters, and said that the capital is calm, the troops just to crack down on the remnants of a "terrorist" in cooperation with local residents. Government refers to the "terrorists" those who tried to overthrow the Assad regime.
TV display images on a quiet street, Midan neighborhood efforts to describe everything here has been restored to the normal capital held in Damascus, and workers cleaning up the ruins of the once rebel.
At the same time, Assad state to accept the staff's new army chief of staff, to replace its predecessor, the Defense Minister Ali Ayyoub was killed in the bombing, creators appear on TV. This is the second time since Assad's attack.
While the regime proposed in the quiet capital of the image, the Malaysian government said that it is the template Embassy in Damascus to evacuate more than 130 students and diplomats, and Italy of its own citizens ordered to leave because the "progressive deterioration" in the country .
There are more and more confusion in the neighboring countries of Syria, escalating bloodshed and the periphery countries, especially Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel is closely following the signs of violence in the Syrian regime's chemical weapons or missile might make their way to the hands of the anti-Israel militants.
Last weekend, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the Jewish state to prepare for a possible attack, to prevent this from happening.
Assad's regime increasingly unstable inflame the situation, Israel fears that the collapse of the Syrian Government, affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah, or "base" organization of armed attacks on chemical weapons or missile attacks in Israel, the Syrian military arsenal .
For his part, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has announced that "the country's activities, to collect donations to support our brothers in Syria, a beginning," Proposal to increase its financial support of the rebels, they are rich The oil kingdom may be looking for has been considered to be capital.



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