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Syrian army advances in more neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that said forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, with massive support from Russian air strikes and Iranian Shia militias, have taken the Sheikh Saeed district in eastern Aleppo after fierce fighting that began Sunday afternoon.

“The army is now in full control of Sheikh Saeed,” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that “Syrian regime forces are now in control of 90 percent” of what used to be the rebel owned areas in Aleppo’s east.

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The fall of Aleppo could mark the approaching final days of the Syrian rebel armies, bringing Syria closer to an end of the civil war begun in 2011, and a return of Assad’s government control over the country’s five major cities.

According to an official Syrian news agency SANA Monday report, Syrian Army units are now pushing into the neighborhoods of al-Kallasa, Bustan al-Qaser and Souq al-Hal and chasing down the fleeing rebels to al-Sukkari, al-Mash’had, al-Ameriya and al-Ansari.

Syrian Army units directed heavy fire at rebel groups in Daraa al-Balad area and the western and northern countryside of Daraa southern province, west of Air Defense Battalion and in al-Yadouda town in the northern and western countryside of the Province, killing a large number of rebels and destroying their vehicles.

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