Fighting goes on in Syrian city
Fighting has raged through the night in many neighbourhoods of Aleppo, opposition activists said, bringing the conflict in Syria’s largest city into its fifth day.
Fierce fighting spread through several neighbourhoods of the city yesterday, with government forces fighting rebels with helicopters and tanks.
Syria’s commercial hub is about 40 miles from neighbouring Turkey, which announced today it is closing its 566-mile shared border to trucks due to the unrest.
Syria’s rebel army, which has little central organisation, has seized at least two crossings into Turkey.
Dozens of Turkish trucks were looted and captured by armed men last week at the Bab al-Hawa crossing.
The move cuts off an important import route for supplies for the Syrian state.
