…on rebels trying to seize Aleppo.
"Syrian government forces have carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas controlled by president Bashar al-Assad.
The attack, the most intense insurgent offensive in Aleppo in three years, aimed to build on recent advances against Mr Assad by an array of groups fighting on separate fronts, including Islamic State and rebels backed by his regional foes.
Later, state television showed scores of bodies of armed combatants, saying the army had killed at least 100 insurgents in the counter-offensive.
Aleppo, 50 km south of the Turkish border, was Syria's most populous city before the country's descent into civil war.
It has been partitioned into zones of government and insurgent control since 2012.
Aleppo is of vital importance to Mr Assad, and losing it would further entrench a de facto partition of Syria between western areas still governed from Damascus and the rest of the country run by a patchwork of militias…"
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